Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#32993: Pathologically slow operation

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 17:46:57 -0700

On 10/8/18 5:14 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> What other way is there?

It'd require hacking the diff source code, alas. Also, understanding the 
algorithm. Although the best guy to do it would probably be the 
algorithm's co-inventor Eugene Myers, he's kind of busy these days 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Myers>.