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2026-05-25Merge branch 'mm/diff-U-takes-no-negative-values'Junio C Hamano1-4/+12
The command line parser for "git diff" learned a few options take only non-negative integers. * mm/diff-U-takes-no-negative-values: parse-options: clarify what "negated" means for PARSE_OPT_NONEG xdiff: guard against negative context lengths diff: reject negative values for -U/--unified diff: reject negative values for --inter-hunk-context
2026-05-21Merge branch 'pw/xdiff-shrink-memory-consumption'Junio C Hamano1-24/+22
Shrink wasted memory in Myers diff that does not account for common prefix and suffix removal. * pw/xdiff-shrink-memory-consumption: xdiff: reduce the size of array xprepare: simplify error handling xdiff: cleanup xdl_clean_mmatch() xdiff: reduce size of action arrays
2026-05-19Merge branch 'en/xdiff-cleanup-3'Junio C Hamano4-32/+73
Preparation of the xdiff/ codebase to work with Rust. * en/xdiff-cleanup-3: xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: make execution of action easier to follow xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: make setting action easier to follow xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: make limits more clear xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: use unambiguous types xdiff: use unambiguous types in xdl_bogo_sqrt() xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: delete local recs pointer
2026-05-13xdiff: guard against negative context lengthsMichael Montalbo1-4/+12
The xdemitconf_t fields ctxlen and interhunkctxlen are typed as long (signed), but negative values are not meaningful for context line counts. Unlike the diff_options fields changed in the previous two commits, these cannot be converted to unsigned because the xdiff arithmetic relies on signed subtraction: s1 = XDL_MAX(xch->i1 - xecfg->ctxlen, 0); If ctxlen were unsigned long, the signed operand would be implicitly converted to unsigned, and the subtraction would wrap to a large positive value when i1 < ctxlen, defeating the XDL_MAX clamp. The signed type is required for correct context-window calculations. The previous two commits reject negative values at the parse layer for --inter-hunk-context and -U/--unified, so negative values should no longer reach xdiff in normal use. Add BUG() guards at the top of xdl_get_hunk() as defense in depth to catch programming errors in current or future callers that bypass option parsing. xdl_get_hunk() is called by both xdl_emit_diff() and xdl_call_hunk_func(), so a single guard covers all xdiff consumers. Signed-off-by: Michael Montalbo <mmontalbo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-05xdiff: reduce the size of arrayPhillip Wood1-7/+4
When the myers algorithm is selected the input files are pre-processed to remove any common prefix and suffix and any lines that appear in only one file. This requires a map to be created between the lines that are processed by the myers algorithm and the lines in the original file. That map does not include the common lines at the beginning and end of the files but the array is allocated to be the size of the whole file. Move the allocation into xdl_cleanup_records() where the map is populated and we know how big it needs to be. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-05xprepare: simplify error handlingPhillip Wood1-5/+2
If either of the two allocations fail we want to take the same action so use a single if statement. This saves a few lines and makes it easier for the next commit to add a couple more allocations. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-05xdiff: cleanup xdl_clean_mmatch()Phillip Wood1-3/+4
Remove the "s" parameter as, since the last commit, this function is always called with s == 0. Also change parameter "e" to expect a length, rather than the index of the last line to simplify the caller. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-05xdiff: reduce size of action arraysPhillip Wood1-14/+17
When the myers algorithm is selected the input files are pre-processed to remove any common prefix and suffix. Then any lines that appear only in one side of the diff are marked as changed and frequently occurring lines are marked as changed if they are adjacent to a changed line. This step requires a couple of temporary arrays. As as the common prefix and suffix have already been removed, the arrays only need to be big enough to hold the lines between them, not the whole file. Reduce the size of the arrays and adjust the loops that use them accordingly while taking care to keep indexing the arrays in xdfile_t with absolute line numbers. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-05-05Merge branch 'en/xdiff-cleanup-3' into pw/xdiff-shrink-memory-consumptionJunio C Hamano4-32/+73
* en/xdiff-cleanup-3: xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: make execution of action easier to follow xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: make setting action easier to follow xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: make limits more clear xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: use unambiguous types xdiff: use unambiguous types in xdl_bogo_sqrt() xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: delete local recs pointer
2026-04-30xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: make execution of action easier to followEzekiel Newren1-10/+30
Helped-by: Phillip Wood Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-04-30xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: make setting action easier to followEzekiel Newren1-2/+12
Rewrite nested ternaries with a clear if/else ladder for action1/action2 to improve readability while preserving behavior. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-04-30xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: make limits more clearEzekiel Newren1-7/+19
Make the handling of per-file limits and the minimal-case clearer. * Use explicit per-file limit variables (mlim1, mlim2) and initialize them. * The additional condition `!need_min` is redudant now, remove it. Best viewed with --color-words. Helped-by: Phillip Wood Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-04-30xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: use unambiguous typesEzekiel Newren1-3/+3
Change the parameters of xdl_clean_mmatch() and the local variables i, nm, mlim in xdl_cleanup_records() to use unambiguous types. Best viewed with --color-words. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-04-30xdiff: use unambiguous types in xdl_bogo_sqrt()Ezekiel Newren4-6/+6
There is no real square root for a negative number and size_t may not be large enough for certain applications, replace long with uint64_t. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-04-30xdiff/xdl_cleanup_records: delete local recs pointerEzekiel Newren1-9/+8
Simplify the first 2 for loops by directly indexing the xdfile.recs. recs is unused in the last 2 for loops, remove it. Best viewed with --color-words. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-04-29stash: add --label-ours, --label-theirs, --label-base for applyHarald Nordgren1-3/+3
Allow callers of "git stash apply" to pass custom labels for conflict markers instead of the default "Updated upstream" and "Stashed changes". Document the new options and add a test. Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-03-24Merge branch 'yc/histogram-hunk-shift-fix'Junio C Hamano1-2/+45
The final clean-up phase of the diff output could turn the result of histogram diff algorithm suboptimal, which has been corrected. * yc/histogram-hunk-shift-fix: xdiff: re-diff shifted change groups when using histogram algorithm
2026-03-03xdiff: re-diff shifted change groups when using histogram algorithmYee Cheng Chin1-2/+45
After a diff algorithm has been run, the compaction phase (xdl_change_compact()) shifts and merges change groups to produce a cleaner output. However, this shifting could create a new matched group where both sides now have matching lines. This results in a wrong-looking diff output which contains redundant lines that are the same on both files. Fix this by detecting this situation, and re-diff the texts on each side to find similar lines, using the fall-back Myer's diff. Only do this for histogram diff as it's the only algorithm where this is relevant. Below contains an example, and more details. For an example, consider two files below: file1: A A A A A A A file2: A A x A A A A When using Myer's diff, the algorithm finds that only the "x" has been changed, and produces a final diff result (these are line diffs, but using word-diff syntax for ease of presentation): A A[-A-]{+x+}A AAA When using histogram diff, the algorithm first discovers the LCS "A AAA", which it uses as anchor, then produces an intermediate diff: {+A Ax+}A AAA[- AAA-]. This is a longer diff than Myer's, but it's still self-consistent. However, the compaction phase attempts to shift the first file's diff group upwards (note that this shift crosses the anchor that histogram had used), leading to the final results for histogram diff: [-A AA-]{+A Ax+}A AAA This is a technically correct patch but looks clearly redundant to a human as the first 3 lines should not be in the diff. The fix would detect that a shift has caused matching to a new group, and re-diff the "A AA" and "A Ax" parts, which results in "A A" correctly re-marked as unchanged. This creates the now correct histogram diff: A A[-A-]{+x+}A AAA This issue is not applicable to Myer's diff algorithm as it already generates a minimal diff, which means a shift cannot result in a smaller diff output (the default Myer's diff in xdiff is not guaranteed to be minimal for performance reasons, but it typically does a good enough job). It's also not applicable to patience diff, because it uses only unique lines as anchor for its splits, and falls back to Myer's diff within each split. Shifting requires both ends having the same lines, and therefore cannot cross the unique line boundaries established by the patience algorithm. In contrast histogram diff uses non-unique lines as anchors, and therefore shifting can cross over them. This issue is rare in a normal repository. Below is a table of repositories (`git log --no-merges -p --histogram -1000`), showing how many times a re-diff was done and how many times it resulted in finding matching lines (therefore addressing this issue) with the fix. In general it is fewer than 1% of diff's that exhibit this offending behavior: | Repo (1k commits) | Re-diff | Found matching lines | |--------------------|---------|----------------------| | llvm-project | 45 | 11 | | vim | 110 | 9 | | git | 18 | 2 | | WebKit | 168 | 1 | | ripgrep | 22 | 1 | | cpython | 32 | 0 | | vscode | 13 | 0 | Signed-off-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-02-20Merge branch 'pw/diff-anchored-optim'Junio C Hamano1-12/+6
"git diff --anchored=<text>" has been optimized. * pw/diff-anchored-optim: diff --anchored: avoid checking unmatched lines
2026-02-20Merge branch 'pw/xdiff-cleanups'Junio C Hamano2-9/+12
Small clean-up of xdiff library to remove unnecessary data duplication. * pw/xdiff-cleanups: xdiff: remove unused data from xdlclass_t xdiff: remove "line_hash" field from xrecord_t
2026-02-12diff --anchored: avoid checking unmatched linesPhillip Wood1-12/+6
For a line to be an anchor it has to appear in each of the files being diffed exactly once. With that in mind lets delay checking whether a line is an anchor until we know there is exactly one instance of the line in each file. As each line is checked at most once, there is no need to cache the result of is_anchor() and we can drop that field from the hashmap entries. When diffing 5000 recent commits in git.git this gives a modest speedup of ~2%. In the (rather extreme) example below that consists largely of deletions the speedup is ~16%. seq 0 10000000 >old printf '%s\n' 300000 100000 200000 >new git diff --no-index --anchored=300000 old new Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-26xdiff: remove unused data from xdlclass_tPhillip Wood1-3/+5
Prior to commit 6d507bd41a (xdiff: delete fields ha, line, size in xdlclass_t in favor of an xrecord_t, 2025-09-26) xdlclass_t carried a copy of all the fields in xrecord_t. That commit embedded xrecord_t in xdlclass_t to make it easier to change the types of the fields in xrecord_t. However commit 6a26019c81 (xdiff: split xrecord_t.ha into line_hash and minimal_perfect_hash, 2025-11-18) added the "minimal_perfect_hash" field to xrecord_t which is not used by xdlclass_t. To avoid wasting space stop copying the whole of xrecord_t and just copy the pointer and length that we need to intern the line. Together with the previous commit this effectively reverts 6d507bd41a. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2026-01-26xdiff: remove "line_hash" field from xrecord_tPhillip Wood2-6/+7
Prior to commit 6a26019c81 (xdiff: split xrecord_t.ha into line_hash and minimal_perfect_hash, 2025-11-18) the "ha" field of xrecord_t initially held the "line_hash" value and once the line had been interned that field was updated to hold the "minimal_perfect_hash". The "line_hash" is only used to intern the line so there is no point in storing it after all the input lines have been interned. Removing the "line_hash" field from xrecord_t and storing it in xdlclass_t where it is actually used makes it clearer that it is a temporary value and it should not be used once we're calculated the "minimal_perfect_hash". This also reduces the size of xrecord_t by 25% on 64-bit platforms and 40% on 32-bit platforms. While the struct is small we create one instance per input line so any saving is welcome. Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-12-09Merge branch 'yc/xdiff-patience-optim'Junio C Hamano1-1/+4
The way patience diff finds LCS has been optimized. * yc/xdiff-patience-optim: xdiff: optimize patience diff's LCS search
2025-12-05Merge branch 'en/xdiff-cleanup-2'Junio C Hamano9-109/+109
Code clean-up. * en/xdiff-cleanup-2: xdiff: rename rindex -> reference_index xdiff: change rindex from long to size_t in xdfile_t xdiff: make xdfile_t.nreff a size_t instead of long xdiff: make xdfile_t.nrec a size_t instead of long xdiff: split xrecord_t.ha into line_hash and minimal_perfect_hash xdiff: use unambiguous types in xdl_hash_record() xdiff: use size_t for xrecord_t.size xdiff: make xrecord_t.ptr a uint8_t instead of char xdiff: use ptrdiff_t for dstart/dend doc: define unambiguous type mappings across C and Rust
2025-11-27xdiff: optimize patience diff's LCS searchYee Cheng Chin1-1/+4
The find_longest_common_sequence() function in patience diff is inefficient as it calls binary_search() for every unique line it encounters when deciding where to put it in the sequence. From instrumentation (using xctrace) on popular repositories, binary_search() takes up 50-60% of the run time within patience_diff() when performing a diff. To optimize this, add a boundary condition check before binary_search() is called to see if the encountered unique line is located after the entire currently tracked longest subsequence. If so, skip the unnecessary binary search and simply append the entry to the end of sequence. Given that most files compared in a diff are usually quite similar to each other, this condition is very common, and should be hit much more frequently than the binary search. Below are some end-to-end performance results by timing `git log --shortstat --oneline -500 --patience` on different repositories with the old and new code. Generally speaking this seems to give at least 8-10% speed up. The "binary search hit %" column describes how often the algorithm enters the binary search path instead of the new faster path. Even in the WebKit case we can see that it's quite rare (1.46%). | Repo | Speed difference | binary search hit % | |----------|------------------|---------------------| | vim | 1.27x | 0.01% | | pytorch | 1.16x | 0.02% | | cpython | 1.14x | 0.06% | | ripgrep | 1.14x | 0.03% | | git | 1.13x | 0.12% | | vscode | 1.09x | 0.10% | | WebKit | 1.08x | 1.46% | The benchmarks were done using hyperfine, on an Apple M1 Max laptop, with git compiled with `-O3 -flto`. Signed-off-by: Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.git@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-18xdiff: rename rindex -> reference_indexEzekiel Newren3-9/+9
The classic diff adds only the lines that it's going to consider, during the diff, to an array. A mapping between the compacted array, and the lines of the file that they reference, is facilitated by this array. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-18xdiff: change rindex from long to size_t in xdfile_tEzekiel Newren1-1/+1
The field rindex describes an index offset for other arrays. Change it to size_t. Changing the type of rindex from long to size_t has no cascading refactor impact because it is only ever used to directly index other arrays. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-18xdiff: make xdfile_t.nreff a size_t instead of longEzekiel Newren2-8/+8
size_t is used because nreff describes the number of elements in memory for rindex. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-18xdiff: make xdfile_t.nrec a size_t instead of longEzekiel Newren6-26/+26
size_t is used because nrec describes the number of elements for both recs, and for 'changed' + 2. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-18xdiff: split xrecord_t.ha into line_hash and minimal_perfect_hashEzekiel Newren5-20/+21
The ha field is serving two different purposes, which makes the code harder to read. At first glance, it looks like many places assume there could never be hash collisions between lines of the two input files. In reality, line_hash is used together with xdl_recmatch() to ensure correct comparisons of lines, even when collisions occur. To make this clearer, the old ha field has been split: * line_hash: a straightforward hash of a line, independent of any external context. Its type is uint64_t, as it comes from a fixed width hash function. * minimal_perfect_hash: Not a new concept, but now a separate field. It comes from the classifier's general-purpose hash table, which assigns each line a unique and minimal hash across the two files. A size_t is used here because it's meant to be used to index an array. This also avoids ` as usize` casts on the Rust side when using it to index a slice. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-18xdiff: use unambiguous types in xdl_hash_record()Ezekiel Newren3-20/+20
Convert the function signature and body to use unambiguous types. char is changed to uint8_t because this function processes bytes in memory. unsigned long to uint64_t so that the hash output is consistent across platforms. `flags` was changed from long to uint64_t to ensure the high order bits are not dropped on platforms that treat long as 32 bits. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-18xdiff: use size_t for xrecord_t.sizeEzekiel Newren5-20/+19
size_t is the appropriate type because size is describing the number of elements, bytes in this case, in memory. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-18xdiff: make xrecord_t.ptr a uint8_t instead of charEzekiel Newren7-21/+21
Make xrecord_t.ptr uint8_t because it's referring to bytes in memory. In order to avoid a refactor avalanche, many uses of this field were cast to char* or similar. Places where casting was unnecessary: xemit.c:156 xmerge.c:124 xmerge.c:127 xmerge.c:164 xmerge.c:169 xmerge.c:172 xmerge.c:178 Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-18xdiff: use ptrdiff_t for dstart/dendEzekiel Newren1-1/+1
ptrdiff_t is appropriate for dstart and dend because they both describe positive or negative offsets relative to a pointer. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-11-17xdiff: add 'minimal' to XDF_DIFF_ALGORITHM_MASKAntonin Delpeuch1-1/+1
The XDF_DIFF_ALGORITHM_MASK bit mask only includes bits for the patience and histogram diffs, not for the minimal one. This means that when reseting the diff algorithm to the default one, one needs to separately clear the bit for the minimal diff. There are places in the code that fail to do that: merge-ort.c and builtin/merge-file.c. Add the XDF_NEED_MINIMAL bit to the bit mask, and remove the separate clearing of this bit in the places where it hasn't been forgotten. Signed-off-by: Antonin Delpeuch <antonin@delpeuch.eu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-14Merge branch 'en/xdiff-cleanup'Junio C Hamano9-336/+268
A lot of code clean-up of xdiff. Split out of a larger topic. * en/xdiff-cleanup: xdiff: change type of xdfile_t.changed from char to bool xdiff: add macros DISCARD(0), KEEP(1), INVESTIGATE(2) in xprepare.c xdiff: rename rchg -> changed in xdfile_t xdiff: delete chastore from xdfile_t xdiff: delete fields ha, line, size in xdlclass_t in favor of an xrecord_t xdiff: delete redundant array xdfile_t.ha xdiff: delete struct diffdata_t xdiff: delete local variables that alias fields in xrecord_t xdiff: delete superfluous function xdl_get_rec() in xemit xdiff: delete unnecessary fields from xrecord_t and xdfile_t xdiff: delete local variables and initialize/free xdfile_t directly xdiff: delete static forward declarations in xprepare
2025-10-03xdiff: change type of xdfile_t.changed from char to boolEzekiel Newren5-22/+22
The only values possible for 'changed' is 1 and 0, which exactly maps to a bool type. It might not look like this because action1 and action2 (which use to be dis1, and dis2) were also of type char and were assigned numerical values within a few lines of 'changed' (what used to be rchg). Using DISCARD/KEEP/INVESTIGATE for action1[i]/action2[j], and true/false for changed[k] makes it clear to future readers that these are logically separate concepts. Best-viewed-with: --color-words Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-10-03xdiff: add macros DISCARD(0), KEEP(1), INVESTIGATE(2) in xprepare.cEzekiel Newren1-37/+69
This commit is refactor-only; no behavior is changed. A future commit will use bool literals for changed[i]. The functions xdl_clean_mmatch() and xdl_cleanup_records() will be cleaned up more in a future patch series. The changes to xdl_cleanup_records(), in this patch, are just to make it clear why `char rchg` is refactored to `bool changed`. Rename dis* to action* and replace literal numericals with macros. The old names came from when dis* (which I think was short for discard) was treated like a boolean, but over time it grew into a ternary state machine. The result was confusing because dis* and rchg* both used 0/1 values with different meanings. The new names and macros make the states explicit. nm is short for number of matches, and mlim is a heuristic limit: nm == 0 -> action[i] = DISCARD -> changed[i] = true 0 < nm < mlim -> action[i] = KEEP -> changed[i] = false nm >= mlim -> action[i] = INVESTIGATE -> changed[i] = xdl_clean_mmatch() When need_min is true, only DISCARD and KEEP occur because the limit is effectively infinite. Best-viewed-with: --color-words Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-30xdiff: rename rchg -> changed in xdfile_tEzekiel Newren6-32/+32
The field rchg (now 'changed') declares if a line in a file is changed or not. A later commit will change it's type from 'char' to 'bool' to make its purpose even more clear. Best-viewed-with: --color-words Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-30xdiff: delete chastore from xdfile_tEzekiel Newren8-69/+63
xdfile_t currently uses chastore_t which is an arena allocator. I think that xrecord_t used to be a linked list and recs didn't exist originally. When recs was added I think they forgot to remove xdfile_t.next, but was overlooked. This dual data structure setup makes the code somewhat confusing. Additionally the C type chastore_t isn't FFI friendly, and provides little to no performance benefit over using realloc to grow an array. Performance impact of deleting fields from xdfile_t: Deleting ha is about 5% slower. Deleting cha is about 5% faster. Delete ha, but keep cha time hyperfine --warmup 3 -L exe build_v2.51.0/git,build_delete_ha/git '{exe} log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null' Benchmark 1: build_v2.51.0/git log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 1.269 s ± 0.017 s [User: 1.135 s, System: 0.128 s] Range (min … max): 1.249 s … 1.286 s 10 runs Benchmark 2: build_delete_ha/git log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 1.339 s ± 0.017 s [User: 1.234 s, System: 0.099 s] Range (min … max): 1.320 s … 1.358 s 10 runs Summary build_v2.51.0/git log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null ran 1.06 ± 0.02 times faster than build_delete_ha/git log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null Delete cha, but keep ha time hyperfine --warmup 3 -L exe build_v2.51.0/git,build_delete_chastore/git '{exe} log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null' Benchmark 1: build_v2.51.0/git log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 1.290 s ± 0.001 s [User: 1.154 s, System: 0.130 s] Range (min … max): 1.288 s … 1.292 s 10 runs Benchmark 2: build_delete_chastore/git log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 1.232 s ± 0.017 s [User: 1.105 s, System: 0.121 s] Range (min … max): 1.205 s … 1.249 s 10 runs Summary build_delete_chastore/git log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null ran 1.05 ± 0.01 times faster than build_v2.51.0/git log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null Delete ha AND chastore time hyperfine --warmup 3 -L exe build_v2.51.0/git,build_delete_ha_and_chastore/git '{exe} log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null' Benchmark 1: build_v2.51.0/git log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 1.291 s ± 0.002 s [User: 1.156 s, System: 0.129 s] Range (min … max): 1.287 s … 1.295 s 10 runs Benchmark 2: build_delete_ha_and_chastore/git log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null Time (mean ± σ): 1.306 s ± 0.001 s [User: 1.195 s, System: 0.105 s] Range (min … max): 1.305 s … 1.308 s 10 runs Summary build_v2.51.0/git log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null ran 1.01 ± 0.00 times faster than build_delete_ha_and_chastore/git log --oneline --shortstat --diff-algorithm=myers -3000 v2.39.1 >/dev/null Best-viewed-with: --color-words Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-30xdiff: delete fields ha, line, size in xdlclass_t in favor of an xrecord_tEzekiel Newren1-10/+4
The fields from xdlclass_t are aliases of xrecord_t: xdlclass_t.line -> xrecord_t.ptr xdlclass_t.size -> xrecord_t.size xdlclass_t.ha -> xrecord_t.ha xdlclass_t carries a copy of the data in xrecord_t, but instead of embedding xrecord_t it duplicates the individual fields. A future commit will change the types used in xrecord_t so embed it in xdlclass_t first, so we don't have to remember to change the types here as well. Best-viewed-with: --color-words Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-30xdiff: delete redundant array xdfile_t.haEzekiel Newren3-21/+16
When 0 <= i < xdfile_t.nreff the following is true: xdfile_t.ha[i] == xdfile_t.recs[xdfile_t.rindex[i]] This makes the code about 5% slower. The fields rindex and ha are specific to the classic diff (myers and minimal). I plan on creating a struct for classic diff, but there's a lot of cleanup that needs to be done before that can happen and leaving ha in would make those cleanups harder to follow. A subsequent commit will delete the chastore cha from xdfile_t. That later commit will investigate deleting ha and cha independently and together. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-30xdiff: delete struct diffdata_tEzekiel Newren2-33/+10
Every field in this struct is an alias for a certain field in xdfile_t. diffdata_t.nrec -> xdfile_t.nreff diffdata_t.ha -> xdfile_t.ha diffdata_t.rindex -> xdfile_t.rindex diffdata_t.rchg -> xdfile_t.rchg I think this struct existed before xdfile_t, and was kept for backward compatibility reasons. I think xdiffi should have been refactored to use the new (xdfile_t) struct, but was easier to alias it instead. The local variables rchg* and rindex* don't shorten the lines by much, nor do they really need to be there to make the code more readable. Delete them. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-30xdiff: delete local variables that alias fields in xrecord_tEzekiel Newren1-16/+13
Use the type xrecord_t as the local variable for the functions in the file xdiff/xemit.c. Most places directly reference the fields inside of this struct, doing that here makes it more consistent with the rest of the code. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-30xdiff: delete superfluous function xdl_get_rec() in xemitEzekiel Newren1-16/+7
When xrecord_t was a linked list, and recs didn't exist, I assume this function walked the list until it found the right record. Accessing a contiguous array is so trivial that this function is now superfluous. Delete it. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-26xdiff: delete unnecessary fields from xrecord_t and xdfile_tEzekiel Newren2-16/+2
xrecord_t.next, xdfile_t.hbits, xdfile_t.rhash are initialized, but never used for anything by the code. Remove them. Best-viewed-with: --color-words Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-26xdiff: delete local variables and initialize/free xdfile_t directlyEzekiel Newren1-48/+30
These local variables are essentially a hand-rolled additional implementation of xdl_free_ctx() inlined into xdl_prepare_ctx(). Modify the code to use the existing xdl_free_ctx() function so there aren't two ways to free such variables. Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-09-26xdiff: delete static forward declarations in xprepareEzekiel Newren1-66/+50
Move xdl_prepare_env() later in the file to avoid the need for static forward declarations. Best-viewed-with: --color-moved Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-08-18xdiff: optimize xdl_hash_record_verbatimAlexander Monakov1-3/+54
xdl_hash_record_verbatim uses modified djb2 hash with XOR instead of ADD for combining. The ADD-based variant is used as the basis of the modern ("GNU") symbol lookup scheme in ELF. Glibc dynamic loader received an optimized version of this hash function thanks to Noah Goldstein [1]. Switch xdl_hash_record_verbatim to additive hashing and implement an optimized loop following the scheme suggested by Noah. Timing 'git log --oneline --shortstat v2.0.0..v2.5.0' under perf, I got version | cycles, bn | instructions, bn --------------------------------------- A 6.38 11.3 B 6.21 10.89 C 5.80 9.95 D 5.83 8.74 --------------------------------------- A: baseline (git master at e4ef0485fd78) B: plus 'xdiff: refactor xdl_hash_record()' C: and plus this patch D: with 'xdiff: use xxhash' by Phillip Wood The resulting speedup for xdl_hash_record_verbatim itself is about 1.5x. [1] https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/20220519221803.57957-6-goldstein.w.n@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>