[Xastir] Please....
Curt, WE7U
archer at eskimo.com
Wed Jan 12 18:32:28 EST 2005
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Tom Russo wrote:
> Fancy that --- looking over the code it appears to do a linear search through
> the list of existing alerts, doing lots of memory operations on each item in
> the list to shorten the name, and doing a "does this one match?" operation.
>
> Gotta be a more efficient algorithm than that. At a minimum, perhaps the
> shortened title could be saved in the alert structure when the alert is
> created or modified, so it doesn't have to go through all those
> strrchr/memmove operations every time it's compared to?
Or a hash table using 1/2/3 key pieces of data from the alert as a
key?
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