…ython#119492)``_fancy_replace()`` is no longer recursive. and a single call does a worst-case linear number of ratio() computations instead of quadratic. This renders toothless a universe of pathological cases. Some inputs may produce different output, but that's rare, and I didn't find a case where the final diff appeared to be of materially worse quality. To the contrary, by refusing to even consider synching on lines "far apart", there was more easy-to-digest locality in the output.