From 4c88d42762380928d352a26a4faaffb88cbb2406 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:48:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] mention loop optimisation --- doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn b/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn index e3043b61b..d5571cb6a 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn @@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ Downsides here: * Means a minimum of 2x as much time spent resolving dependencies, at least in my simple implementation, which re-runs the dependency resolution loop until no new pages are rebuilt. + (I added an optimisation that gets it down to 1.5X as much work on + average, still 2x as much worst case.) * Causes extra work for some transitive dependencies that we don't actually care about. For example, changing index causes plugins/brokenlinks to update in the first pass; if there's a second -- 2.39.5