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Michael Nahas <mike.nahas@gmail.com> writes:

> It is clear that implementing NEXT/WTREE will worsen the performance
> of some commands ("git diff" under merge conflict).

It is not clear to me at all. I generally do not to base my first
objection on performance. When I have problems with proposals at the
design and concept level, I do not have a chance to even bother about
performance aspect, before questioning the proposal.