How can I speed up large file comparisons (and recomparisons, as I edit files)?
Merge generally compares files very quickly. However, for those situations where comparisons take more time, applying the following suggestions can improve matters significantly. • Turn off word-wrapping (View > Options… > Text Comparisons > Display). This is likely to be the single biggest potential performance gain. • Disable any unnecessary regular expressions (View > Options… > Text Comparisons > Expressions). • Disable any unnecessary column filters (View > Options… > Text Comparisons > Column Filter). • Enable the Show only # lines of context option (View > Options… > File Comparisons). Note that this would only improve performance if you have left word wrapping on, but not otherwise. • Turn off the detailed inline highlighting of changes (View > Options… > Text Comparisons > Display).
Merge generally compares files very quickly. However, for those situations where comparisons take more time, applying the following suggestions can improve matters significantly. • Turn off word-wrapping (Options… window > Text Comparisons > Display). This is likely to be the single biggest potential performance gain. • Disable any unnecessary regular expressions (Options… window > Text Comparisons > Expressions). • Disable any unnecessary column filters (Options… window > Text Comparisons > Column Filter). • Enable the Show only # lines of context option (Options… window > File Comparisons). Note that this would only improve performance if you have left word wrapping on, but not otherwise. • Turn off the detailed inline highlighting of changes (Options… window > Text Comparisons > Display).
