+> --s
+
+>> I've now done this. On a wiki with many [[plugins/contrib/album]]s
+>> (a full rebuild takes half an hour!), I tested a refresh after
+>> `touch tags/*.mdwn` (my tag pages contain inlines of the form
+>> `tagged(foo)` sorted by date, so they exercise sorting).
+>> I also tried removing sorting from `pagespec_match_list`
+>> altogether, as an upper bound for how fast we can possibly make it.
+>>
+>> * `master` at branch point: 63.72user 0.29system
+>> * `master` at branch point: 63.91user 0.37system
+>> * my branch, with `@_`: 65.28user 0.29system
+>> * my branch, with `@_`: 65.21user 0.28system
+>> * my branch, with `$a`: 64.09user 0.28system
+>> * my branch, with `$a`: 63.83user 0.36system
+>> * not sorted at all: 58.99user 0.29system
+>> * not sorted at all: 58.92user 0.29system
+>>
+>> --s
+