Re: bug with diff 2.8.1

[Paul Eggert]

<address@hidden> writes:

> Though it is a bit ugly, perhaps you should replicate the directory tree
> that caused the problem for me.

I cannot replicate the directory tree with just the information you've
supplied so far.

I suspect that your original hypothesis is incorrect, and that the
original input does not consist of 1 GB chunks of identical binary
files.  If some of the files are not binary, that might well explain
the problem: when the files are not binary 'diff' needs to read them
all into memory to check them.

Perhaps you can verify this hypothesis on your data.