Brian Sammon wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:53:28 +0100 > Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Brian Sammon wrote: >>> I need to compare two 70 MB files to see if they're different. If >> I use diff (Windows 2000, either of two different diff versions), the >> memory usage balloons up to around 140MB, as if it was loading both >> files into memory. This can be a problem on the computer I want to >> use it on, as there's not always 140MB of free memory available. >>> Does anyone have any suggestions for how to deal with this? >>> Suggestions like "Try this command-line option" or "Use this other >> program" [preferably open-source] or "read the following website" >> are welcome. >>> Suggestions like "get more memory" are, well... >> >> If you only want to know if they are different you can use >> >> diff -q >> diff --brief >> >> Does that also need that much memory? > > That doesn't help (the memory usage is pretty much the same) > Thanks for the suggestion, though. I hadn't thought of that.
Is not that very strange? Maybe you should file a bug report on that? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
