Re: Use a *real* built-in diff generator

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: 2006-03-25 23:56:59
On 3/25/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> This uses a simplified libxdiff setup to generate unified diffs _without_
> doing  fork/execve of GNU "diff".
>
> This has several huge advantages, for example:
>

Even more impressive on Cygwin (>50x!):

.../git-win$ time git --exec-path=$(pwd) diff initial.. > /dev/null
real    0m1.485s
user    0m0.567s
sys     0m0.840s

../git-win$ time git diff initial.. >/dev/null
real    1m20.781s
user    0m31.806s
sys     0m20.717s
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