Diffing commits of big files is slow

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 01:51 +0200, Daniel Clemente wrote:
> In a pack-0.92 branch with latest Bazaar (1.17dev), I replaced a 40 Mb video with a newer version (30Mb). 
> 
>   I am intrigued as to why the following operations are so slow:

bzr doesn't know that the files are binary until it extracts them and
examines the content. It knows they are different before extracting, but
that doesn't help a lot.

-Rob
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