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On Saturday 26 November 2011 07:50:27 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> > On 26-11-2011 16:56:41 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> >> [...] Besides, sorting even 30,000 |
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> >> entries (if you're merging every ebuild in portage) should not take |
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> >> more than a few secs. |
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> > A linux kernel has around that much of files, and I really wonder if |
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> > it's worth waiting a couple of seconds (probably more on sparc and arm |
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> > systems) just because then the files are in sorted order. |
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> I'm not sure the two are really comparable. However, looking at a |
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> simple string sort on 30,000 strings, I don't see it taking a |
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> significant amount of time at all: |
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sure, it's probably not significantly higher, but i also can't see any point in |
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sorting the entries. we've been doing fine so far in the 10+ years of it being |
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unsorted. so unless Arfrever has a compelling reason, time to revert. |
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-mike |
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