Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#69752: New and improved 'diff'.

From: Robert Boyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 09:25:13 -0500

Please ignore my last message.

I must have been having problems I do not understand.

> time cmp  primes-so-far.lisp the-primes-below-10000000000.txt
cmp: EOF on primes-so-far.lisp after byte 373882880, line 38039843

real 5m15.340s
user 0m0.705s
sys 0m0.765s

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 9:11 AM Robert Boyer <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> > Oh, for that sort of thing you can use the "cmp" command, which is part
> > of diffutils.
>
> Not so!
>
> cmp  primes-so-far.lisp the-primes-below-10000000000.txt
> cmp: primes-so-far.lisp: Cannot allocate memory
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 3:14 PM Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> On 3/12/24 09:06, Robert Boyer wrote:
>> > Here is a better version of diff, better only in the sense that it
>> works on
>> > all files.
>>
>> Oh, for that sort of thing you can use the "cmp" command, which is part
>> of diffutils. It doesn't need to read both files into RAM, so it is more
>> likely to work for your situation.
>>
>