Re: diff as a library?

[Bruno Haible]

Stepan Kasal writes:

> a hack: couldn't you just make hunderds of links to the file and then use
> diff -r ?  (At least on Unix-like platforms.)

That would only work if 'diff' has options that let me specify
start and end offsets for each of the hundreds files.

> But maybe that shared lib is the right solution here.

That's why I'm asking :-)

> But I'd say you should ask for improvement of msgdiff speed, not specifying
> which method should be used.

Well, I wrote msggrep, I know which is its bottleneck, and I know
msgdiff will have the same bottleneck: calling an external program 200
times for a 100 KB input file.

Bruno