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

On 3/25/06, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] 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