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From: Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org>
Subject: Re: git diff is slow (--patience is fast)
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 11:39:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Good idea.

New steps to reproduce:
~ $ git clone git://slonopotamus.org/git-diff
Cloning into git-diff...
remote: Counting objects: 6, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 6 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (6/6), 478.87 KiB | 722 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), done.
~ $ cd git-diff
~/git-diff $ time git diff HEAD^ > /dev/null 

real    0m6.585s
user    0m6.540s
sys     0m0.040s
~/git-diff $ time git diff --patience HEAD^ > /dev/null 

real    0m0.259s
user    0m0.220s
sys     0m0.030s