Re: absurdly slow git-diff

At 2008-11-07 15:57:23 -0800, torvalds@linux-foundation.org wrote:

quoted

Yeah, similar. Mine is below. There's one less branch in the for
loops.

..and has a comment and made the magic constant be named.

It works fine for me (the time went from 5m17s to 1.8s).

(By the way, my test case is certainly very odd, but it is a real file
from my test suite, albeit with the content x'ed away; and the change
was to adjust the expected output for all the items. I wasn't looking
for bugs. :-)

Thanks for the explanation and the patch.

-- ams