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diff --git a/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn b/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn index 8c6e1df3b..739a3d6b0 100644 --- a/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn @@ -181,6 +181,20 @@ That earlier version of the branch is also available for comparison: > to specify a sort method in other directives. --[[Joey]] >> Done. --[[smcv]] +## speed + +I notice the implementation does not use the magic `$a` and `$b` globals. +That nasty perl optimisation is still worthwhile: + + perl -e 'use warnings; use strict; use Benchmark; sub a { $a <=> $b } sub b ($$) { $_[0] <=> $_[1] }; my @list=reverse(1..9999); timethese(10000, {a => sub {my @f=sort a @list}, b => sub {my @f=sort b @list}, c => => sub {my @f=sort { b($a,$b) } @list}})' + Benchmark: timing 10000 iterations of a, b, c... + a: 80 wallclock secs (76.74 usr + 0.05 sys = 76.79 CPU) @ 130.23/s (n=10000) + b: 112 wallclock secs (106.14 usr + 0.20 sys = 106.34 CPU) @ 94.04/s (n=10000) + c: 330 wallclock secs (320.25 usr + 0.17 sys = 320.42 CPU) @ 31.21/s (n=10000) + +Unfortunatly, I think that c is closest to the new implementation. +--[[Joey]] + ## Documentation from sort-package branch ### advanced sort orders (conditionally added to [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]]) |