Tried fuzz-testing difftastic this morning (using cargo fuzz), and didn't find any crashes. I guess that's a good thing? I was slightly disappointed.
Judging by the output, I think the tree-sitter parsers were exercised much more heavily than the tree diffing logic.
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Single player games have an online discussion that occurs shortly after release.
Multiplayer games rapidly develop a meta. I tried UT99 years after release and it wasn't as much fun.
I have a bunch of open tasks on my GH repos, so I tried asking ChatGPT and Claude to write a card-based web UI that showed some random open issues.
ChatGPT gave me something that worked, but the Claude mock-ups look better (and render inline!).
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