[pacman-dev] [PATCH 5/5] filelist_sort: check if filelist is presorted

[Allan McRae]

On 10/12/16 02:14, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> This patch obviously won't do any good until packages start being built with
> their file lists presorted, so we may want to defer it, but in the handful of
> packages I tested, it did not cause a significant delay either.
> 

Would it be best to just recommend that repo databases are regenerated
with the updated repo-add?   Not including this would result in the
qsort operations on the pre-sorted file lists having the worst possible
performance.

A