From: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web•de>, "Git List" <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] commit: convert pop_most_recent_commit() to prio_queue
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 01:15:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250716051533.GD1396022@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv7ntdmlx.fsf@gitster.g>
On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 05:07:38PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> René Scharfe <l.s.r@web•de> writes:
>
> > Use prio_queue to improve worst-case performance at the cost of slightly
> > worse best-case performance. Then add and use prio_queue_replace() to
> > recover that loss.
>
> Would change in the tiebreaking behaviour (aka sort stability) also
> a cost of this change, as this swaps use of sorted linearly linked
> list with priority queue?
The prio_queue uses insertion order as a tie-breaker for stability (with
earlier entries coming first). For building the initial queue from the
list, I think that is obviously fine (we feed them in sorted order,
which the prio queue will retain). For inserting while we walk the list,
we'll produce the same results as long as the original code always
inserted new entries after existing ones (in the case of a tie on commit
date, that is).
And I think that is the case, since commit_list_insert_by_date() does
this:
while ((p = *pp) != NULL) {
if (p->item->date < item->date) {
break;
}
pp = &p->next;
}
return commit_list_insert(item, pp);
So we only insert once we have found an item in the list _after_ us,
retaining the same order.
But hopefully somebody can double check my logic, as it is quite
possible I got something reversed above. ;)
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-16 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-15 14:35 [PATCH 0/3] commit: convert pop_most_recent_commit() to prio_queue René Scharfe
2025-07-15 14:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] " René Scharfe
2025-07-15 19:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-15 20:47 ` Justin Tobler
2025-07-16 9:39 ` René Scharfe
2025-07-16 5:05 ` Jeff King
2025-07-16 9:39 ` René Scharfe
2025-07-17 8:22 ` René Scharfe
2025-07-19 6:55 ` Jeff King
2025-07-19 6:57 ` Jeff King
2025-07-19 11:15 ` René Scharfe
2025-07-20 0:03 ` Jeff King
2025-07-20 1:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-16 22:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-17 8:22 ` René Scharfe
2025-07-15 14:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] prio-queue: add prio_queue_replace() René Scharfe
2025-07-16 5:09 ` Jeff King
2025-07-16 9:38 ` René Scharfe
2025-07-17 9:20 ` René Scharfe
2025-07-19 7:02 ` Jeff King
2025-07-15 14:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] commit: use prio_queue_replace() in pop_most_recent_commit() René Scharfe
2025-07-15 20:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-16 9:38 ` René Scharfe
2025-07-16 0:07 ` [PATCH 0/3] commit: convert pop_most_recent_commit() to prio_queue Junio C Hamano
2025-07-16 5:15 ` Jeff King [this message]
2025-07-16 9:38 ` René Scharfe
2025-07-19 6:45 ` Jeff King
2025-07-16 14:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-07-18 9:09 ` [PATCH v2 " René Scharfe
2025-07-18 9:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " René Scharfe
2025-07-21 14:02 ` Lidong Yan
2025-08-03 9:54 ` René Scharfe
2025-08-03 16:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-08-04 19:56 ` René Scharfe
2025-07-18 9:39 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] commit: use prio_queue_replace() in pop_most_recent_commit(),MIME-Version: 1.0 René Scharfe
2025-08-03 11:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2025-08-03 11:33 ` René Scharfe
2025-07-18 9:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] prio-queue: add prio_queue_replace() René Scharfe
2025-07-19 7:04 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] commit: convert pop_most_recent_commit() to prio_queue Jeff King
2025-07-22 6:26 ` SZEDER Gábor
2025-07-22 14:27 ` Junio C Hamano
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