tags 21665 notabug close 21665 done On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 6:42 AM, Maurice van der Pot <[email protected]> wrote: > I am working on an application suitable for visually merging large files. > This application delegates determination of differences to GNU diff. > > Unfortunately I have found that diff reads the entire input files into > memory, leading to "/usr/bin/diff: memory exhausted" messages on the > types of files I'd like to support. > > Would you be open to patches that enable diffing large files by using > mmap?
As Paul responded in http://bugs.gnu.org/21665#8, using mmap seems unlikely to help much, but if you write the patch and demonstrate that it does make a difference, we'll be very interested, and I will happily reopen the issue. For now, I'm marking this as notabug and closing it.
