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files with less memory. GNU Diff often can not work with files larger than 33% of datasize (from limit) due to memory exhaustion. PR: ports/50097 Submitted by: risner@stdio.com
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This is the original diff program from 2.11BSD. It works better
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with very large files on systems with datasize limits.
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Default FreeBSD limits datasize to 524288 kbytes. This means that
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GNU diff processes that require more than this much ram will fail.
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The 2.11BSD diff did not load the files in core and could operate
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on considerably less ram.
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