From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:56:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Use a *real* built-in diff generator
Message-ID: <81b0412b0603250456o7f5925e6kbbfc0054aec564a1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603241938510.15714@g5.osdl.org>

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