X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/49bf877701d89d613dcf5c2d85bd08876a636dba..359af8c197ae440ed4a979ab8486d3155f82e54e:/doc/todo/optimisations.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/optimisations.mdwn b/doc/todo/optimisations.mdwn index 13a270b8f..582c03ef1 100644 --- a/doc/todo/optimisations.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/optimisations.mdwn @@ -1,21 +1,8 @@ -* Don't render blog archive pages unless a page is added/removed. Just - changing a page doesn't affect the archives as they show only the title. +Ikiwiki has already been optimised a lot, however.. * Look at splitting up CGI.pm. But note that too much splitting can slow perl down. -* The backlinks code turns out to scale badly to wikis with thousands of - pages. The code is O(N^2)! It's called for each page, and it loops - through all the pages to find backlinks. - - Need to find a way to calculate and cache all the backlinks in one pass, - which could be done in at worst O(N), and possibly less (if they're - stored in the index, it could be constant time). But to do this, there - would need to be a way to invalidate or update the cache in these - situations: - - - A page is added. Note that this can change a backlink to point to - the new page instead of the page it pointed to before. - - A page is deleted. This can also change backlinks that pointed to that - page. - - A page is modified. Links added/removed. +* The backlinks calculation code is still O(N^2) on the number of pages. + If backlinks info were stored in the index file, it would go down to + constant time for iterative builds, though still N^2 for rebuilds.