[Toybox] histogram diff

Ray Gardner raygard at gmail.com
Fri Jan 31 09:27:50 PST 2025


On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM enh <enh at google.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM Ray Gardner <raygard at gmail.com> wrote:

> > [...] There is
> > an explanation of the algo and code at the end after main(), and I've
> > written a couple of posts about it at raygard.net. And have a working
> > standalone version at github.com/raygard/hdiff/.
>
> oh, wow, until reading your article i had no idea sop@ died in 2018...
> i'd assumed he'd just been promoted to where he wasn't making code
> changes any more :-(

Thank you for reading my posts! You may be the first, last, and only!

I don't know who a lot of people are that are well-known in their part
of the programming world. I only found that out while digging into
mailiing list discussions about git, diff, histogram diff etc.
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250110193353.493374-1-jonathantanmy@google.com/T/

> (btw, your "more on" article might want to explicitly link to your
> _original_ article, rather than just to places that _didn't_ clearly
> explain the algorithm!)

Advice taken, thank you!


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