[EdSchouten]

Yeah, that's true. Having some kind of chunking algorithm that's content/file format aware could make it work even better. For example, it makes a lot of sense to chunk source files at function/scope boundaries.

In my case I need to ensure that all producers of data use exactly the same algorithm, as I need to look up build cache results based on Merkle tree hashes. That's why I'm intentionally focusing on having algorithms that are not only easy to implement, but also easy to implement consistently. I think that MaxCDC implementation that I shared strikes a good balance in that regard.