[Toybox] histogram diff

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On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM Ray Gardner <raygard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM enh <enh at google.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM Ray Gardner <raygard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > [...] 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 :-(
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> Thank you for reading my posts! You may be the first, last, and only!

(if you had a working rss feed that feedly would ingest, i'd be
reading them as you post, not just when you mention them :-) )

> 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/

yeah, i didn't know him closely (and i'm not 100% certain i ever spoke
to him via vibrating air molecules rather than bugs/email), but i did
work at the other end of the same corridor for a while, and obviously
i've been using his stuff for ~15 years at this point. long after his
death, as it turns out. and while code review systems are similar to
build systems in that "they all suck, just in different ways", i have
to say gerrit is by far the "least worst" i've used.

(i'll hit send now before i start a rant about how awful github is,
despite being the newest one i've had to use! at least
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phabricator is no more, and only
googlers have to suffer critique, which replaced mondrian...)

> > (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!