Re: [Pan-users] Header pane sorting slowness

[Jeff Vian]

Charles Kerr wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:11:01PM +0200, Samuli K?rkk?inen 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.


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