[bug-diffutils] bug#21665: bug#21665: Use of mmap for large files

[Paul Eggert]

Maurice van der Pot wrote:
> Would you be open to patches that enable diffing large files by using
> mmap?

I doubt whether that would help that much, as it still needs to construct 
information about each line, and that information consumes memory too.  Doing 
this in secondary storage would be a bear.  In practice when I've run into this 
problem, I've either gotten a bigger machine or made my input lines shorter. 
Preferably the former.