svn commit: r1070679 - /subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.7.html

[jc...@apache.org]

Author: jcorvel
Date: Mon Feb 14 21:47:00 2011
New Revision: 1070679

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1070679&view=rev
Log:
* publish/docs/release-notes/1.7.html
  (diff-optimizations): Add a note about diff optimizations.

Modified:
    subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.7.html

Modified: subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.7.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.7.html?rev=1070679&r1=1070678&r2=1070679&view=diff
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--- subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.7.html (original)
+++ subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.7.html Mon Feb 14 21:47:00 2011
@@ -819,6 +819,20 @@ is ignored by default, but may be consid
 
 </div>  <!-- merge-tracking-enhancements -->
 
+<div class="h3" id="diff-optimizations">
+<h3>Optimizations of diff, merge and blame
+  <a class="sectionlink" href="#diff-optimizations"
+    title="Link to this section">&para;</a>
+</h3>
+
+<p>The svn diff algorithm, which is at the core of <code>diff</code>,
+<code>merge</code> and <code>blame</code>, has been optimized to process
+identical prefix and suffix lines more efficiently. This speeds up those
+operations, especially for large files when the changes are contained in
+a limited part of the files.</p>
+
+</div>  <!-- diff-optimizations -->
+
 </div>  <!-- enhancements -->
 
 <div class="h2" id="distribution-changes">