Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Viewing code in Gerrit

[Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/24/2014 9:21 AM, Evan Huus wrote:
> In summary: the diff is computed locally in javascript, and seems to
> be worse than O(n) on the size of the underlying file; viewing the
> diff for any file >1k lines may be slow, but if you just let it run it
> will finish eventually. Avoid epan/enterprise-numbers and other files
> with 100k+ lines, they take many minutes to finish.

IOW: The 2 versions being diff'd are downloaded in total before doing a 
local compare ?

If so, UGH ....