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Re: diff4-optimization-bytes

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 05:54:37 +0200

Hyrum K Wright wrote on Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 21:47:12 -0600:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> > Johan Corveleyn wrote on Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 13:20:29 +0100:
> >> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> >> > Could you have a look? (attached)
> >>
> >> Nice. It looks good to me (haven't tested it, just looked at the code;
> >> I assume it passes with trunk?)
> >>
> >
> > Thanks, yes, r1068749.
> >
> > While I'm here, in light of the truncation bug in diff3 earlier today,
> > how about adding a warning to svn_diff_diff4_2() family of API's to the
> > effect of "@warning This code is experimental"?
>
> How much more experimental is it than other recent code we've added to
> trunk?

s/experimental/under-exercised/
(no known callers, only one unit test)

> (And I hope that such an appellation would be only temporary;
> experimental code close to a release is a Bad Thing. Johan is working
> hard to fix whatever Badness there may be.)
>

The experimental code is svn_diff_diff4_2(); AFAIK svn_diff_diff4() is
as stable as ever.

> -Hyrum
Received on 2011-02-09 04:59:26 CET

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