Re: Replacing GNU diff

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2025 at 12:29:37PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 27, 2025, at 12:22 PM, nia <nia%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > After importing it, improving the tests, and battle testing it with a
> > pkgsrc quarterly patching frenzy, I think this version of diff is
> > ready for production.
> > 
> > I'd like to flip the default and see if anyone discovers any problems.
> 
> No objections here, but a question: is it smaller than GNU diff?  Asking for a friend. :-)
> 

Does the friend have a 68010 processor by any chance?

$ size /usr/bin/diff
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  37304    2424     904   40632    9eb8 /usr/bin/diff
$ size /usr/bin/diff-gnu
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 101690    3632    1800  107122   1a272 /usr/bin/diff-gnu