Re: [PATCH 0/7] RFC: Accelerate xdiff and begin its rustification

From: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Date: Jul 18, 2025, 09:23 UTC
Message-ID: <aHoSjbV2nMZkBn5l@256bit.org>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1980.git.git.1752784344.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Do, 17 Jul 2025, Ezekiel Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:

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> This series accelerates xdiff by 5-19%.
> 
> It also introduces Rust as a hard dependency.
> 
> …and it doesn’t yet pass a couple of the github workflows; hints from
> Windows experts, and opinions on ambiguous primitives would be appreciated
> (see below).
> 
> This is just the beginning of many patches that I have to convert portions
> of, maybe eventually all of, xdiff to Rust. While working on that
> conversion, I found several ways to clarify the code, along with some
> optimizations.

Just a quick heads-up: We (as in Vim/Neovim) have been using gits xdiff library for use in Vim and Neovim.

Is the plan to get rid of xdiffs C source completely and replace it by a Rust implementation?

Thanks, Chris

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