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Debian’s APT Package Manager to Provide Much Faster Incremental Updates

On December 24, 2015, Julian Andres Klode managed to add read buffering for reading lines to APT, thus greatly improving the performance of rred. However, the change was still slow, and he had to profile the rred method against an uncompressed Contents file of 430MB in size with a 75 KB large patch.

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