> Le 18 juil. 2025 à 06:15, Christian Brabandt <cb@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > >> 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? Just a quick FYI about the other branch of this thread that might be relevant: there should remain at least one place to get a quality pure-C xdiff, but I think Vim getting a Rusty xdiff (or the possibility to “bring your own xdiff”) would be nice. > > Thanks, > Chris > -- > Eine gute Stellung ist besser als jede Arbeit.
