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Does Steam do something like this for game updates?


Steam unfortunately doesn't use a rolling hash like this (fastcdc, buzhash, etc.), but rather slices files into 1MB chunks, hashes them, and updates at that granularity.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/sdk/uploading#AppStructur...




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