diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8f6d94fa8..a43759cd5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 
 Improved slider logic in larger expressions.
 
+Increased the default value DFT_NODE_LIMIT to 100,000 (from
+50,000). This increases the likelihood that files get a syntactic diff
+whilst still having acceptable performance.
+
 ### Display
 
 Fixed an issue where whole file additions/removals were printed twice.
diff --git a/src/options.rs b/src/options.rs
index 27a11d880..7757dc8de 100644
--- a/src/options.rs
+++ b/src/options.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use const_format::formatcp;
 
 use crate::style::BackgroundColor;
 
-pub const DEFAULT_NODE_LIMIT: u32 = 50_000;
+pub const DEFAULT_NODE_LIMIT: u32 = 100_000;
 pub const DEFAULT_BYTE_LIMIT: usize = 1_000_000;
 
 pub enum ColorOutput {