From 10f4695abd65db6c009864c5abb7cb5dfa1cf153 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:28:54 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] response --- doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn b/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn index 2ce1de6a4..0aca74be2 100644 --- a/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn @@ -165,7 +165,6 @@ That earlier version of the branch is also available for comparison: >>>>>>> I've kept the semantics from `report` as-is, then: >>>>>>> e.g. `sort="age -title"`. --s ->>>>> >>>>> Perhaps we could borrow from `meta updated` and use `update_age`? >>>>> `updateage` would perhaps be a more normal IkiWiki style - but that >>>>> makes me think that updateage is a quantity analagous to tonnage or @@ -190,7 +189,7 @@ That nasty perl optimisation is still worthwhile: Benchmark: timing 10000 iterations of a, b, c... a: 80 wallclock secs (76.74 usr + 0.05 sys = 76.79 CPU) @ 130.23/s (n=10000) b: 112 wallclock secs (106.14 usr + 0.20 sys = 106.34 CPU) @ 94.04/s (n=10000) - c: 330 wallclock secs (320.25 usr + 0.17 sys = 320.42 CPU) @ 31.21/s (n=10000) + c: 330 wallclock secs (320.25 usr + 0.17 sys = 320.42 CPU) @ 31.21/s (n=10000) Unfortunatly, I think that c is closest to the new implementation. --[[Joey]] @@ -217,6 +216,10 @@ Unfortunatly, I think that c is closest to the new implementation. > is sorted. Or, it might be useful to do the filtering first, then > sort the sub-list thus produced, then finally apply the limit? --s +>> Yes, it was deliberate, pagespec matching can be expensive enough that +>> needing to sort a lot of pages seems likely to be less work. (I don't +>> remember what benchmarking was done though.) --[[Joey]] + ## Documentation from sort-package branch ### advanced sort orders (conditionally added to [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]]) -- 2.39.5