This is not really a shortcoming of 'sdiff' -- it is a shortcoming of Terminal. To get the optimum performance out of sdiff, you need to make the Terminal window much wider. Probably the perceived advantage of opendiff is that it opens in a gui window and thus doesn't have the text rendering limitations of sdiff as displayed in a standard Terminal window.
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