Re: Binary comparison of files

Peter Ritchie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.advanced
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If all you need to know is that the files are different; I would use a hash.  CRC32 is fairly fast.  For more reliability you can use a cryptographic hash.

If you want to know what the differences are; the performance would depend on how you plan on processing the differences.

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