From 4a20402ba0da25b5f47aaa5c6bc7b9184816cd50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 16:36:39 -0400 Subject: update --- doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn') diff --git a/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn b/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn index 546f4f3aa..b073f190b 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn @@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ 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 plugins/brokenlinks to update in the first pass; if there's a second @@ -60,5 +61,7 @@ Downsides here: (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]].) + (Fixed now for cases like this one where contenless dependencies avoid + the unnecessary work.) --[[Joey]] -- cgit v1.2.3