On 01/03/17 at 02:20pm, Allan McRae wrote:
On 10/12/16 02:14, Andrew Gregory wrote:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> ---
This patch obviously won't do any good until packages start being built with their file lists presorted, so we may want to defer it, but in the handful of packages I tested, it did not cause a significant delay either.
Would it be best to just recommend that repo databases are regenerated with the updated repo-add? Not including this would result in the qsort operations on the pre-sorted file lists having the worst possible performance.
I wouldn't expect pre-sorting to degrade performance for modern qsort implementations (it certainly didn't for me), but the performance hit for unsorted dbs/packages is probably modest enough that it's better to just go ahead and merge this. apg