Bug#409664: bsdiff: is extremely slow on some files, sometimes hangs

[Jari Aalto-5]

forwarded 409664 Colin Percival <[hidden email]>
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Hi Colin,

Could you take a look at Debian bug

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409664

and see if any of the suggested algorithm solutions could be applied.

Thanks,
Jari



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[Colin Percival-4]

Hi,

Jari Aalto wrote:
> Could you take a look at Debian bug
>
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409664
>
> and see if any of the suggested algorithm solutions could be applied.

It should be possible to fix this problem via algorithmic changes, yes.
Unfortunately I haven't had the {time, money} to make the necessary
adjustments.

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