[Help] Why do app updates have download sizes almost as large as the apps themselves? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by zirzedolta@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

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They seem to be too big for what devs claim to be a 'minor patch' and yet too small to suggest a complete reinstallation of the app. Is there some technical reason behind it? I would like to request an ELI5 for this.

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[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

That's fairly easy to do for interpreted languages, but it's a lot more problematic for compiled apps that are distributed as a machine code binary.

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