On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:28:12 +0100
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2011-11-26 11:58:22 Fabian Groffen napisał(a):
> > On 26-11-2011 01:54:35 +0000, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
> > wrote:
> > > commit:     1d4ac47c28706094230cb2c4e6ee1c1c71629aa0
> > > T> Org>
> > > AuthorDate: Sat Nov 26 01:52:49 2011 +0000
> > > Commit:     Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever <AT>
> > > gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Sat Nov 26 01:52:49 2011 +0000
> > > URL:
> > > http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=1d4ac47c
> > > 
> > > dblink.mergeme(): Merge files in alphabetic order.
> > 
> > What's the advantage of this?
> 
> The advantage is that this allows to easier review output of `emerge`
> to verify if correct files have been installed.
> 
> > I don't really like to pay for sorting a potentially huge list just
> > for some eye-candy. 
> 
> Time of sorting in case of Linux sources is less than 0.05 s.

Have you considered time overhead of moving files in unnatural order?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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