samtools/bcftools — pull request #95 by joelmartin (2014-08-15 21:11:02+00:00)
Title: fix for long allele slowdown in normalize_alleles

in structural variant vcf files the alleles can be megabases long unfortunately, the repeated calls to strlen caused merge to take hours. the patch is to minimize the number of strlen calls and brought running time down to minutes for my plant samples.