Re: [bug-recutils] Selection is extremely slow when fields with common name exist

[Jose E. Marchesi]

         I just committed a patch with an optimization in the SEX expression
         evaluator: now it does not eval the expression in permutations of field
         names which are _not_ part of the expression.  This makes the 
evaluation
         of your example sex 
    
    Did you push it?  I don't see any commit which looks like that in
    the repo.

Forgot it.  Pushed now.
         
         
         Well, this is better than nothing :) More idas for optimizing the
         evaluator highly welcomed!
    
    Well presumably it's slow because it has to do a linear search through 
    the  list of field values.  So the obvious answer would be that for each 
field,
    there should be a hash table keyed on the field value.  That way, the 
search 
    time would go from O(n) to O(1).   But perhaps you had already thought of 
    that ...

Working on it...