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

From: Robert Boyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 09:11:02 -0500

> 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.
>