An Experimental Evaluation of the Assumption of Independence in Multi-Version Programming, by John Knight and Nancy Leveson https://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/nver-tse.pdf
If you take bunch of programs written independently, are you more likely to reduce bugs by taking the most common output?
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It's a small thing, but I'm much happier with the output of --version in the latest version of difftastic.
It shows the release version number, the commit hash, and the commit date. This gives you a sense of the age of release, but you still have a reproducible build (unlike build time).
It also shows OS, arch and compiler, because those are common requirements in bug reports.
New version of difftastic is out!
* Fixed a nasty crash that was relatively common
* Minor display and performance fixes
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/releases/tag/0.60.0
Spent a bunch of time learning about text diffing algorithms this evening.
"Myers Algorithm" refers to a specific paper written by Eugene Myers, and he published faster algorithms later!
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/wiki/LCS-Algorithms