On 23/03/2008, Guy Van den Broeck guyvdb@gmail.com wrote:
With respect to performance I think there are a lot of option. We can fall back on a simpler diff when the filesize or execution time exceeds a certain number, or the HTML diff can be an extra (experimental) link on the current diff page. In general, I don't think the performance concern should hold back this project. Once we have the optimized html diff code we can decide how and when to integrate it.
It'd be better, I suspect, to do a really nice one (from the usage POV) and scale back as and when the algorithm is just too inefficient - at least you'll know what you're aiming for in the next version.
- d.