We've had weak/rolling hashing in the code for quite a while. It was a
popular request for a while, based on the belief that rsync does this
and we should too. However, the benefit is quite small; we save on
average about 0.8% of transferred blocks over the population as a whole:
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This would be fine if the cost was comparably low, however the downside
of attempting rolling hash matching is that we (by default) do a
complete file read on the destination in order to look for matches
before we starting pulling blocks for the file. For any larger file this
means a sometimes long, I/O-intensive pause before the file starts
syncing, for usually no benefit.
I propose we simply rip off the bandaid and save the effort.
* cmd/syncthing, lib/gui: Separate gui into own package (ref #4085)
* fix tests
* Don't use main as interface name (make old go happy)
* gui->api
* don't leak state via locations and use in-tree config
* let api (un-)subscribe to config
* interface naming and exporting
* lib/ur
* fix tests and lib/foldersummary
* shorter URVersion and ur debug fix
* review
* model.JsonCompletion(FolderCompletion) -> FolderCompletion.Map()
* rename debug facility https -> api
* folder summaries in model
* disassociate unrelated constants
* fix merge fail
* missing id assignement