Re: [Gramps-devel] Inconsistent date comparisons (was UNSTABLE trunk)

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2012/12/5 Doug Blank <dou...@gm...>

>
> In attempting to clean up this code, I am wondering if we should ever sort
> dates fast but wrong? The match code might be able to be better optimized
> (perhaps caching some values/changing database). I could do some
> benchmarking on using match to sort if that would be useful. I guess that
> if match is not much slower, we should probably not ever use sortval for
> ordering.
>

I suppose it depends on the fact if it still used somewhere in the code.
I would also think that always using the complicated sorting is the correct
way, but if there are speed sensitive parts that use sortval, then another
issue is added: performance.

So, deprecating sortval is ok with me if it is possible.

Benny