Thanks for the great info. I really appreciate your time and effort. Cheers, Jason
Sent from my phone; please pardon any communication catastrophes. On Jul 23, 2018, at 2:36 PM, Adam R. Maxwell via Bibdesk-users <bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Jul 23, 2018, at 12:19 PM, "Craggs, Jason G." > <crag...@health.missouri.edu> wrote: > > Question born of ignorance: is there any sort of cost to using that much > metadata in the cite key? Minor cost in storage, dwarfed by the date-added/date-modified and bdsk-file fields BibDesk adds. Generating it is a one-time cost, but it's used as a key in a hash table and hashing cite keys is a bit slow since it has to be done case-insensitively (copy and case-fold the string). We optimized that code pretty heavily, including the hash function, but lookups and manipulations of the citekey are still pretty expensive. My suspicion is that really long keys (say 15+ characters) will incur a bit more cost, but you'd have to profile it to be sure. It depends on the hash table implementation. -- adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
