Source: libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: perl, debhelper (>= 11~), libalgorithm-diff-perl Standards-Version: 3.9.5 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Algorithm-Diff-XS Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libalgorithm-diff-perl Description: module to find differences between files (XS accelerated) Algorithm::Diff::XS is a Perl diff utility module based on Joe Schaefer's excellent but not very well-known Algorithm::LCS module, with a drop-in interface identical to Algorithm::Diff. . Note that only the LCSidx function is optimized in XS at the moment, which means only compact_diff will get significantly faster for large data sets, while diff and sdiff will run in identical speed as Algorithm::Diff.