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Re: Viewing code in Gerrit


From: Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:53:53 -0700

On 3/24/14 9:03 AM, Evan Huus wrote:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Bill Meier <wmeier () newsguy com> wrote:
On 3/24/2014 9:21 AM, Evan Huus wrote:


In summary: the diff is computed locally in javascript, and seems to
be worse than O(n) on the size of the underlying file; viewing the
diff for any file >1k lines may be slow, but if you just let it run it
will finish eventually. Avoid epan/enterprise-numbers and other files
with 100k+ lines, they take many minutes to finish.


IOW: The 2 versions being diff'd are downloaded in total before doing a
local compare ?

It seems so; however it doesn't appear to be the bandwidth that's the
problem, but the actual diff algorithm. The bottleneck is definitely
CPU.

Weird. The server has "diff" and "diff_intraline" caches which are used
to "accelerate display of intraline differences when viewing a file"
according to the documentation so *something* is happening on that end.
The default cache size was 10 MiB for each. I increased it to 100 MiB in
case it helps.

BTW, diffs are much faster using the "New Screen" view, at least on my
machine + browser.
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