[stdlib-sig] difflib on large files

[Watson, Paul]

difflib appears to be very well laid out and utilizes well-known algorithms.

The only difficulty is that it only works when everything is in memory. Is there any ongoing effort to allow it to work on larger files? Would it be better to integrate larger dataset sizes into difflib or to create something new such as bigdifflib? 

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