Diff sliders are a really interesting problem for AST diffs. Here's a surprising example.
At first, it looks like the first `|` should be highlighted. However the first `|` is the outer `match` case, and the inner | is syntactically an or-pattern!
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@krinkle A surprising number of PL design workarounds are "just add another equals sign" 🙃
I tried replace Vec with SmallVec in a really hot loop in difftastic, and it's a huge speedup. It almost *halved* the runtime of one of my test files!
I've done a lot of performance tuning of difftastic, so it's surprising to see such a big win.
https://crates.io/crates/smallvec
I've learnt a surprising amount by looking at how other people are packaging my difftastic project!
(1) A local copy of the manual doesn't have the version (OpenBSD packaging fixes this).
(2) One of my dependencies has been yanked (Void Linux packaging fixes this).