https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55329
--- Comment #6 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com --- Actually, I'd very much like to see better diff support for pywikipedia. I dont know why I missed that bug =)
I see in those bugs several comments about complexity changes, saying that a patch could change complexity from O(n*m) to O(n+m), which certainly looks interesting. If char-by-char comparison provides better diffs, at a lower cost, what exactly is the reason for not supporting in Python? :s
Two things to look at during implementation: * Would it provide interesting diffs for all cases? (if one case is improved while other matches get worse, it's not so interesting anymore) * Performance changes for big diffs.
Good luck =)