On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Package: diff
> Version: 2.8.7-0.2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> diff uses huge amounts of memory when doing a unified diff between two huge 
> text files
> Just do:
> diff -u hugefile1.txt hugefile2.txt
> 
> The problem is that the diff doesn't get done since the computer has not
> that much virtual memory.

Is this specific to 2.8.7 or you can also reproduce with 2.8.1 in
testing and unstable?


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