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Stop searching when it finds the first difference

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Locate the isEqual implementation and trace how it compares the two files. Reproduce a case where the files differ substantially, then verify that comparison stops at the first difference while identical files still return true.

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Description

Sometimes it takes a lot of time to get isEqual result when the files are too different.
I think it's safe to return isEqual = false on first difference found.

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JavaScript
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