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If a sidebar contains a map, or inline (etc), one would expect a
-change/add/remove of any of the mapped/inlined pages to cause a full wiki
+add/remove of any of the mapped/inlined pages to cause a full wiki
rebuild. But this does not happen.
If page A inlines page B, which inlines page C, a change to C will cause B
@@ -52,13 +52,17 @@ Downsides here:
at least in my simple implementation, which re-runs the dependency
resolution loop until no new pages are rebuilt.
(I added an optimisation that gets it down to 1.5X as much work on
- average, still 2x as much worst case.)
+ average, still 2x as much worst case. I suppose building a directed
+ graph and traversing it would be theoretically more efficient.)
* Causes extra work for some transitive dependencies that we don't
- actually care about. For example, changing index causes
+ actually care about. This is amelorated, but not solved by
+ the current work on [[todo/dependency_types]].
+ For example, changing index causes
plugins/brokenlinks to update in the first pass; if there's a second
- pass, plugins/map is then updated, because it depends on plugins/brokenlinks.
+ pass, plugins/map is no longer updated (contentless dependencies FTW),
+ but plugins is, because it depends on plugins/brokenlinks.
(Of course, this is just a special case of the issue that a real
- modification to plugins/brokenlinks causes an unnecessary update of plugins/map,
- because we have [[only_one_kind_of_dependency|todo/dependency_types]].)
+ modification to plugins/brokenlinks causes an unnecessary update of
+ plugins, and could be solved by adding more dependency types.)
--[[Joey]]