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List:       wikitech-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] GSoC proposal - visual diff
From:       "Guy Van den Broeck" <guyvdb () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-03-26 11:57:33
Message-ID: 3f58d4fa0803260457u57e0cac7h7130afa80f7610b7 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Magically calculating both diffs at once is not possible.
The visual diff essentially compares tree structures at a fine granularity.
A lot of the markup needs to be added in to the equation to compare
equality. This is too different from a source diff.

2008/3/25, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Tim Landscheidt
> <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> >   Is there really so much computing time spent on diffs that
> >  performance here is an issue?
>
> Yes.  Otherwise nobody would have bothered rewriting the diff engine in
> C++.
>
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