On 09-Jan-16, Olaf Dabrunz wrote: > Note that the existing diff tools that we all use every day bring in > heuristical speed improvements, and do pre- and postprocessing to > improve the results.
To clarify: the pre- and post-processing improve the result of the diff, regardless of whether any speedup heuristics are used in the comparison itself. Basically, the pre-processing makes arrangements to skip uninteresting lines when comparing the texts, so that the relative weight of matches between interesting lines increases, making it more likely to match-up interesting lines. The post-processing chooses between several same-weight solutions, and tries to select a solution that is typically more likely to represent the actual change. -- Olaf Dabrunz (oda <at> fctrace.org) -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
