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Streamline _walkdirs_utf8 for utf8 file systems, reducing time to traverse a mozilla tree from 1s to .6 seconds. (Robert Collins)

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that only certain files should be compared.
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Performance can be further improved by caching comparisons to avoid repeating
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them.  Caching could potentially be performed by ``diff`` and perhaps by
 
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them.  Caching could potentially be performed by ``diff`` and perhaps by 
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``merge``.  Merge is aware of the relationship of a text merge's result to
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the THIS value, and the THIS value is generally the basis value.  So the
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comparison is latent, but present.  The only issue is extracting it.