On 8/12/21 4:27 PM, enh via Toybox wrote: > you know how you (rob) have repeatedly expressed your desire to have a > different > diff implementation, and i've always either ignored you or claimed that the > existing one is good enough? > > well ... i finally hit a case where i can tell the difference. it turns out > that > if you have 3 million lines in the files you're diffing, GNU diff can get > through that in less than 10s, busybox takes just under an hour (!), and > toybox > takes just over an hour. > > i'm assuming you already knew of cases like this, but i'll keep my two 125MiB > files somewhere just in case. they compress pretty well, being _very_ > repetitive > ASCII, but the zip file is still 11MiB so i won't post it without being asked.
I'd love to get a copy of those just for personal development testing if I can. (Running problematic real world data through the thing is always preferable.) I'll add a TODO for figuring out how to reasonably have the test suite address the issue without checking in an 11 megabyte test file. :) Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
