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bdiff: extend matches across popular lines

For very large diffs that have large numbers of identical lines (JSON
dumps) that also have large blocks of identical text, bdiff could become
confused about which block matches which because it can only match
very limited regions. The result is very large diffs for small sets of edits.

The earlier recursion rebalancing fix made this behavior more frequent because
it's now more prone to match block 1 to block 2. One frequent user of
large JSON files reported being unable to pass the resulting diffs
through their code review system.

Prior to this change, bdiff would calculate the length of a match at
(i, j) as 1 + length found at (i-1, j-1). With large number of popular
(ignored) lines, this often meant matches couldn't be extended
backwards at all and thus all matching regions were very small.
Disabling the popularity threshold is not an option because it brings
back quadratic behavior.

Instead, we extend a match backwards until we either found a previously
discovered match or we find a mismatching line. This thus successfully
bridges over any popular lines inside and before a matching region.
The larger regions then significant reduce the probability of confusion.

/*
 base85 codec

 Copyright 2006 Brendan Cully <[e-mail]>

 This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of
 the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.

 Largely based on git's implementation
*/

#define PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
#include <Python.h>

#include "util.h"

static const char b85chars[] = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
	"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!#$%&()*+-;<=>?@^_`{|}~";
static char b85dec[256];

static void b85prep(void)
{
	unsigned i;

	memset(b85dec, 0, sizeof(b85dec));
	for (i = 0; i < sizeof(b85chars); i++)
		b85dec[(int)(b85chars[i])] = i + 1;
}

static PyObject *b85encode(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
	const unsigned char *text;
	PyObject *out;
	char *dst;
	Py_ssize_t len, olen, i;
	unsigned int acc, val, ch;
	int pad = 0;

	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s#|i", &text, &len, &pad))
		return NULL;

	if (pad)
		olen = ((len + 3) / 4 * 5) - 3;
	else {
		olen = len % 4;
		if (olen)
			olen++;
		olen += len / 4 * 5;
	}
	if (!(out = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(NULL, olen + 3)))
		return NULL;

	dst = PyBytes_AsString(out);

	while (len) {
		acc = 0;
		for (i = 24; i >= 0; i -= 8) {
			ch = *text++;
			acc |= ch << i;
			if (--len == 0)
				break;
		}
		for (i = 4; i >= 0; i--) {
			val = acc % 85;
			acc /= 85;
			dst[i] = b85chars[val];
		}
		dst += 5;
	}

	if (!pad)
		_PyBytes_Resize(&out, olen);

	return out;
}

static PyObject *b85decode(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
	PyObject *out;
	const char *text;
	char *dst;
	Py_ssize_t len, i, j, olen, cap;
	int c;
	unsigned int acc;

	if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "s#", &text, &len))
		return NULL;

	olen = len / 5 * 4;
	i = len % 5;
	if (i)
		olen += i - 1;
	if (!(out = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(NULL, olen)))
		return NULL;

	dst = PyBytes_AsString(out);

	i = 0;
	while (i < len)
	{
		acc = 0;
		cap = len - i - 1;
		if (cap > 4)
			cap = 4;
		for (j = 0; j < cap; i++, j++)
		{
			c = b85dec[(int)*text++] - 1;
			if (c < 0)
				return PyErr_Format(
					PyExc_ValueError,
					"bad base85 character at position %d",
					(int)i);
			acc = acc * 85 + c;
		}
		if (i++ < len)
		{
			c = b85dec[(int)*text++] - 1;
			if (c < 0)
				return PyErr_Format(
					PyExc_ValueError,
					"bad base85 character at position %d",
					(int)i);
			/* overflow detection: 0xffffffff == "|NsC0",
			 * "|NsC" == 0x03030303 */
			if (acc > 0x03030303 || (acc *= 85) > 0xffffffff - c)
				return PyErr_Format(
					PyExc_ValueError,
					"bad base85 sequence at position %d",
					(int)i);
			acc += c;
		}

		cap = olen < 4 ? olen : 4;
		olen -= cap;
		for (j = 0; j < 4 - cap; j++)
			acc *= 85;
		if (cap && cap < 4)
			acc += 0xffffff >> (cap - 1) * 8;
		for (j = 0; j < cap; j++)
		{
			acc = (acc << 8) | (acc >> 24);
			*dst++ = acc;
		}
	}

	return out;
}

static char base85_doc[] = "Base85 Data Encoding";

static PyMethodDef methods[] = {
	{"b85encode", b85encode, METH_VARARGS,
	 "Encode text in base85.\n\n"
	 "If the second parameter is true, pad the result to a multiple of "
	 "five characters.\n"},
	{"b85decode", b85decode, METH_VARARGS, "Decode base85 text.\n"},
	{NULL, NULL}
};

#ifdef IS_PY3K
static struct PyModuleDef base85_module = {
	PyModuleDef_HEAD_INIT,
	"base85",
	base85_doc,
	-1,
	methods
};

PyMODINIT_FUNC PyInit_base85(void)
{
	b85prep();

	return PyModule_Create(&base85_module);
}
#else
PyMODINIT_FUNC initbase85(void)
{
	Py_InitModule3("base85", methods, base85_doc);

	b85prep();
}
#endif