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

[Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/24/2014 12:03 PM, Evan Huus wrote:
> > IOW: The 2 versions being diff'd are downloaded in total before doing a
> > local compare ?
>
> It seems so; however it doesn't appear to be the bandwidth that's the
> problem, but the actual diff algorithm. The bottleneck is definitely
> CPU.


For those of us who might be on a budget (bandwidth and/or total bytes) 
downloading large files to do diffs would be something to be careful about.

(Naybe this approach is needed to be able to handle adding comments, etc ?)