[squeak-dev] [ANN] [Cuis] Cuis 2.1 is available. Lots of cool
stuff inside!
Levente Uzonyi
leves at elte.hu
Sat Feb 13 06:14:54 UTC 2010
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Leandro wrote:
>
> Levente Uzonyi wrote:
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> You can also get the word based diff using TextDiffBuilder by subclassing it and overriding #split:. Actually ClassDiffBuilder does exactly
> this, so using ClassDiffBuilder instead of TextDiffBuilder will give you the expected result.
>
>
> I think that the difference with the implementation Valeria and I did is that ours switches from lines to words automatically. It also defines "words"
> as Smalltalk words, meaning that it understands keyword limits, which gives better results. The differentiator starts comparing lines, and if the
> proportion of line differences isn't too high, then it reutilizes the work already done (with lines) and refines it to get differences in between
> keywords. The refining strategy was crucial for achieving good performance.
If you subclass ClassDiffBuilder (let's call the subclass KeywordDiffBuilder)
and implement KeywordDiffBuilder >> #split: just like DifferenceFinder >>
#keywordsAndBlanksFrom: you get even better results.
DifferenceFinder has to use such tricks/hacks to have good performance,
because it uses the simplest lcs algorithm which requires n*m time and
space in all cases, while for practical cases TextDiffBuilder requires
O(n+m) time and space.
Levente
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> Not sure if the full functionality I'm describing here is in the last Cuis version though.
>
> /Leandro
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>
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