Jeff-Relf.Me
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Hadron Quark:
> ALl the best diff tools exist on windows too;
> many of the better ones are ONLY on Windows.
> But you knew that; or should've known.
"diff" is a VERY SIMPLE algorithm ( WinMerge uses it );
Google "Longest Common Subsequence Example".
It's recursive, but you don't program it that way,
to avoid stack overflows ( and slowness );
instead, you create a lookup table.
Mine looks like this ( red for old, green for new ):
Jeff-Relf.Me/Diff.PNG
I keep copies of my source code going back to August 2007.