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has caused the Debian Bug report #385352,
regarding diff: uses huge amounts of memory when doing a unified diff between
two huge text files
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Hello.
Received this from the debian bug system. According to the submitter,
the bug may be reproduced in both diffutils 2.8.1 and 2.8.7.
I'm not sure this is the kind of bug that may be "fixed", however,
but I forward it here just in case.
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:17:55 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Bug#385352: diff: uses huge amounts of memory when doing a
unified diff between two huge text files
Package: diff
Version: 2.8.7-0.2
Severity: wishlist
diff uses huge amounts of memory when doing a unified diff between two huge
text files
Just do:
diff -u hugefile1.txt hugefile2.txt
The problem is that the diff doesn't get done since the computer has not
that much virtual memory.
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