Dec. 8, 2000
7:06 p.m.
[Guido, on sharing a search finger and getting worse-than-linear behavior in a simple test case] See my reply on SourceForge (crossed in the mails). I predict that fixing this in an acceptable way (not bulletproof, but linear-time for all predictably common cases) is a two-character change. Surprise, although maybe I'm hallucinating (would someone please confirm?): when I went to the SF patch manager page to look for your patch (using the Open Patches view), I couldn't find it. My guess is that if there are "too many" patches to fit on one screen, then unlike the SF *bug* manager, you don't get any indication that more patches exist or any control to go to the next page.