Hi Dave > So would you guys say that using list filters for backlinks is LESS > inefficient than using list filters for tagging?
By “using list filters for backlinks” do you mean using a list widget to generate a list of backlinks? If you’re asking about the relative efficiency of rendering links as plain links or as tag pills, I wouldn’t expect there to be a significant difference. Best wishes Jeremy. > I would have assumed the opposite, since tags involve tag pills and > dropdowns. That is what gave me the idea of using backlinks, to avoid the > slow down that eventually occurs with using list filters with tags...now I am > bummed... > > Dave > > On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Jeremy Ruston <jeremy.rus...@gmail.com > <mailto:jeremy.rus...@gmail.com>> wrote: > The backlinks filter operator is inherently slow because every tiddler needs > to be parsed to find all the outgoing links, and then filtered to choose the > links to the target tiddler. Parsing is a slowish process because it involves > analysing the tiddler text character by character to find the syntactic > constructions. > > However, the results of parsing are cached for each tiddler until the results > are invalidated by changes. Thus, the construction that Jed showed with two > nested usages of the backlinks filter operator won't be much slower than a > single usage. > > Generally, I'd strongly recommend careful measurements to avoid premature > optimisation. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > jer...@jermolene.com <mailto:jer...@jermolene.com> > http://jermolene.com <http://jermolene.com/> > > On 3 Jul 2016, at 08:32, Jed Carty <inmyso...@gmail.com > <mailto:inmyso...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> Mark, >> >> It wouldn't be hard to make something that does that and me and Jeremy (and >> others) have discussed adding something like that. 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