tags 863879 + pending thanks Thanks for this, I've gone ahead and applied it here after making it check against `None` explicitly rather than `False`-ness as this is more idiomatic IMHO:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=11370138e95176ba083bb0ad0876be7c5f4b568d I did a quick and unreliable benchmark on two NetBSD images - it went from 48.825s → 46.981s… so there is at least no regression :) Thanks again :) Best wishes, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-