On Do, 17 Jul 2025, Ezekiel Newren via GitGitGadget wrote: > This series accelerates xdiff by 5-19%. > > It also introduces Rust as a hard dependency. > > …and it doesn’t yet pass a couple of the github workflows; hints from > Windows experts, and opinions on ambiguous primitives would be appreciated > (see below). > > This is just the beginning of many patches that I have to convert portions > of, maybe eventually all of, xdiff to Rust. While working on that > conversion, I found several ways to clarify the code, along with some > optimizations. Just a quick heads-up: We (as in Vim/Neovim) have been using gits xdiff library for use in Vim and Neovim. Is the plan to get rid of xdiffs C source completely and replace it by a Rust implementation? Thanks, Chris -- Eine gute Stellung ist besser als jede Arbeit.
