Re: Trival merge of big text file: Dismal performance, 540x faster if binary.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 01:55:58PM +0100, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> Textual merging in svn makes use of a variant of the standard diff
> algorithm, namely diff3. Just a couple of days ago, I finally
> succeeded in making diff3 take advantage of those performance
> improvements (haven't committed this to the branch yet, but maybe I'll
> get to it tonight).
>
> Would you be able to build an svn client from source? If so, could you
> perhaps build a client from
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/diff-optimizations-bytes
> ?

Hey Johan,

I would be interested in doing testing and reviewing the changes
on your branch. There might still be enough time to get them into 1.7.

I don't have any suitably large XML files though.
If you and/or Andreas could provide some that would be great.

Thanks,
Stefan
Received on 2011-01-13 14:08:25 CET