No. What Railgun did is it enabled the two sides of the connection to agree on a shared dictionary (the most recent version of the page being transmitted) and use that to compress the new page. It required both sides to keep a cache of page versions to compare against.
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I might be naive but isn’t that what rsync is doing?
No. What Railgun did is it enabled the two sides of the connection to agree on a shared dictionary (the most recent version of the page being transmitted) and use that to compress the new page. It required both sides to keep a cache of page versions to compare against.