[meld] help: Note performance impact of applying filters
- From: Kai Willadsen <kaiw src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [meld] help: Note performance impact of applying filters
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:29:59 +0000 (UTC)
commit 4dffbf708b440b862a7e8ffd361c3bcb3b851550
Author: Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>
Date: Tue Feb 10 06:00:00 2015 +1000
help: Note performance impact of applying filters
help/C/preferences.page | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/help/C/preferences.page b/help/C/preferences.page
index 3bfabac..66c1bf0 100644
--- a/help/C/preferences.page
+++ b/help/C/preferences.page
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@
blank line trimming option will be applied as appropriate, and differences
in line endings will be ignored.
</p>
+ <p>Enabling this option means that <app>Meld</app> must fully read all
+ non-binary files into memory during the folder comparison. With large text
+ files, this can be slow and may cause memory issues.
+ </p>
<p>This option only has an effect if if "Compare files based only on size
and timestamp" is not enabled.
</p>
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