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Bug 127247 - Speeding up resorting
Speeding up resorting
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Pan
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.14.2
Other other
: Normal enhancement
: 0.14.3
Assigned To: Charles Kerr
Pan QA Team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-11-18 00:05 UTC by Samuli Kärkkäinen
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Samuli Kärkkäinen 2003-11-18 00:05:50 UTC 
From pan-users:

Jeff Vian wrote:
> Charles Kerr wrote:
> >  On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:11:01PM +0200, Samuli Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > Sorting the header pane by a different field appears to take time in
> > > proportion to total number of articles in the group, even if the
> > > filters filter out most of the articles. Obviously this is because
> > > pan seems to perform the filtering stage again upon every sort. This
> > > seems unnecessary, given that choosing a different field to sort by,
> > > AFAIK, cannot change the list of articles shown.
> > >
> > > With very large groups, it would be a nice performance improvement to
> > > not do the unnecessary refiltering, but just the sorting.
> >
> > This is a good idea; please file a bugzilla report.
>
> Maybe a single sort creating a linked list on every field.  Then simply
> select the field and the list is already sorted with a linked list.  It
> would likely slow the very first sort, but new headers can be inserted in
> the lists and would not really slow the incremental sorts with each
> download.