On 11/26/2011 08:19 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 26 November 2011 07:50:27 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: >>> On 26-11-2011 16:56:41 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: >>>> [...] Besides, sorting even 30,000 >>>> entries (if you're merging every ebuild in portage) should not take >>>> more than a few secs. >>> >>> A linux kernel has around that much of files, and I really wonder if >>> it's worth waiting a couple of seconds (probably more on sparc and arm >>> systems) just because then the files are in sorted order. >> >> I'm not sure the two are really comparable. However, looking at a >> simple string sort on 30,000 strings, I don't see it taking a >> significant amount of time at all: > > sure, it's probably not significantly higher, but i also can't see any point > in > sorting the entries. we've been doing fine so far in the 10+ years of it > being > unsorted. so unless Arfrever has a compelling reason, time to revert. > -mike
Okay, reverted: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=7c5b170d47ab054bc3f8a7778dd3f8139c1239c6 -- Thanks, Zac
