ack. i'll send it to you directly, because i was on too many mailing lists in the 1990s to feel comfortable sending an 11MiB attachment to a list :-)
(the instructions to generate these files yourself by running the https://github.com/gavinhoward/bc tests would be far shorter, but it would take too long for me to reverse-engineer how i got into that mess in the first place, so...) On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 3:12 AM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/12/21 4:27 PM, enh via Toybox wrote: > > you know how you (rob) have repeatedly expressed your desire to have a > different > > diff implementation, and i've always either ignored you or claimed that > the > > existing one is good enough? > > > > well ... i finally hit a case where i can tell the difference. it turns > out that > > if you have 3 million lines in the files you're diffing, GNU diff can get > > through that in less than 10s, busybox takes just under an hour (!), and > toybox > > takes just over an hour. > > > > i'm assuming you already knew of cases like this, but i'll keep my two > 125MiB > > files somewhere just in case. they compress pretty well, being _very_ > repetitive > > ASCII, but the zip file is still 11MiB so i won't post it without being > asked. > > I'd love to get a copy of those just for personal development testing if I > can. > (Running problematic real world data through the thing is always > preferable.) > > I'll add a TODO for figuring out how to reasonably have the test suite > address > the issue without checking in an 11 megabyte test file. :) > > Thanks, > > Rob >
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