On Fri, 2016-04-15 at 21:00 -0500, MZMcBride wrote: > Max Semenik wrote: > > > > Right now, MediaWiki has 2 pure-PHP engines to produce diffs (there's also > > a native PHP extension wikidiff2, but we're not discussing it right now): > > * DairikiDiff is what everybody uses, and > > * Wikidiff3, and alternative implementation by Guy Van den Broeck that was > > around for 8 years but required a configuration change > > While less battle-tested, Wikidiff3 offers vastly improved performance on > > heavy diffs compared to DairikiDiff. The price, however, is that it makes > > certain shortcuts if the diff is too complex. I ran through 100K diffs > > from English Wikipedia, and 6% of diffs were different. Lots of changes > > were seemingly insignificant but I need your help with determining if > > it's really so. > Is there a related Phabricator Maniphest task about this? I'm not sure I > understand the motivation for making a switch. I would think that heavy > diffs are a very small portion of traffic.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128896 looks related. andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
