I just opened the nightly build, and the difference is amazing ...
nice job!
- S.
On Feb 27, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> Please try the latest source or next nightly to see if it's
> sufficiently improved.
>
> Christiaan
>
> On 27 Feb 2009, at 7:28 PM, Stuart Andrews wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks Adam,
>>
>> As I am just connecting to sourceforge, I have not looked at the
>> code. But once I get that far, I will be asking myself why
>> we need to cycle through all publications after edited just one?
>>
>> Also, I liked your suggestion for disabling the updating of
>> counts ...
>> with my BibDesk usage, I would be happy if the smart groups were
>> computed just once, at startup. Can you recommend a starting point
>> to
>> tweak this code?
>>
>> - Stu
>>
>>
>> On Feb 26, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/26/09 16:59, "Stuart Andrews" wrote:
>>>
>>>> So, my question is whether there is a way to make smart groups less
>>>> diligent in terms of updating their contents after every edit. I
>>>> would be happy if I could trigger this update myself ... "Ok smart
>>>> groups, show us your beach-ball magic".
>>>
>>> The problem is that the count is updated after each change, so it
>>> can be
>>> displayed next to the group name. You could hack the code so smart
>>> groups
>>> were updated when selected or something, if you didn't mind an
>>> incorrect
>>> count (or disable the count for smart groups).
>>>
>>> The best way to fix it would probably be a data model that would
>>> maintain
>>> state and relationships in groups (this is greatly complicated by
>>> things
>>> like crossrefs and macros). At present, smart groups don't maintain
>>> any
>>> state; they're essentially a persistent search. IIRC this works as
>>> follows:
>>>
>>> for (group in smartGroups) {
>>> for (publication in [document publications]) {
>>> for (condition in [group conditions]) {
>>> if ([condition isSatisfiedByPublication:publication])
>>> // add to display list
>>> }
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> So any change to a publication triggers a linear search through the
>>> entire
>>> publications list, evaluating each condition...and that search is
>>> repeated
>>> for each group. If it could be changed to iterate the publications
>>> at the
>>> outer loop, that would probably help. Threading to evaluate groups
>>> in
>>> parallel would be a brute-force win if you have multiple cores, but
>>> likely
>>> not be worth the effort.
>>>
>>> --
>>> adam
>>>
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