[mythtv] PATCH: Intelligent shuffle locks mythmusic for a long time

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:35 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> I finally figured out that mythmusic wasn't crashing when I toggled the
> shuffle mode.  It's just that when it cycled to "Intelligent" shuffle
> mode, it was taking 5 minutes to recompute the playlist.  I made a few
> simple changes to make the playlist traversal more efficient; now it
> takes ~1 second :-)
>
> - Extracted "weight" computation into its own function (yes, it
> introduces a little function call overhead, but the cost is negligible
> and you never know when you might need to use it elsewhere)
> - Changed playlistorder and playlistweight to use QValueVector instead
> of QValueList.  QValueList is not optimized for random access --
> internally it's a linked list, so random access costs O(n).  This was
> really killing us when sorting or looping through a large playlist.
> QValueVector uses an internal array, so random access is done in
> constant time.
>
> If it looks okay Isaac, I would suggest this be committed 0.8.

Yup, looks good to me.  I'm committing it now.  

Thanks,
Isaac