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id: "claim:verifying-llm-extracted-text-with-token-alignment-2026-02-10-biorxiv:bff847b2c4786fee94ba"
kind: "claim"
title: "difflib runtime scales approximately linearly with source length."
description: ""
url: "https://sina.bio/claim/difflib-runtime-scales-approximately-linearly-with-source-length"
---

# difflib runtime scales approximately linearly with source length.

## Content

difflib runtime scales approximately linearly with source length.

## Metadata

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## Connections (2)

### Verifying LLM-extracted text with token alignment

- ID: `version:verifying-llm-extracted-text-with-token-alignment--2026-02-10-biorxiv`
- Kind: `publication`
- Direction: `incoming`
- URL: <https://sina.bio/publication/verifying-llm-extracted-text-with-token-alignment>

This publication contains this grounded claim.

> taln, LCS, and difflib scale approximately linearly with source length, remaining practical for standard short- passage alignments (Supplementary Figure S3).

Source: 2026-02-10-biorxiv.pdf — <https://sina.bio/source/2026-02-10-biorxiv-pdf>

### Naive matching is fastest, while taln, LCS, and difflib scale approximately linearly with source length.

- ID: `result:verifying-llm-extracted-text-with-token-alignment-2026-02-10-biorxiv:c88a461963ec93e08d73`
- Kind: `result`
- Direction: `incoming`
- URL: <https://sina.bio/result/naive-matching-is-fastest-while-taln-lcs-and-difflib-scale-approximatel-2090875d>

This claim supports this result.