(heh, the time i spent staring at gmail's progress bar as i attached the file make me feel more justified in my "get off my lawn!" attitude here. before now i'm not sure i even knew there _was_ a progress bar when you attach a file :-) )
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:19 PM enh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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