a simple idea to greatly improve diff performance

Xavier · Post by **Xavier** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:16 am

Hello,

I noticed that a recursive diff copies all the folders in a temp directory before doing the diff.
So a recursive diff with a compiled projected(debug/release object files) and an uncompiled project is about 10 times slower... It is most noticeable on a laptop with slower drives.

Could you provide a way to remove some directories (debug, release) from the list you copy to the temp directory. It would drastically increase the response time of this command.

Best regards

XAvier PICAT

Beth · Post by **Beth** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:31 am

Thanks for the feedback. I'll take a feature request on this.