Hi Andrew,

On 03/26/2016 10:22 AM, Andrzej Zaborowski wrote:
> On 26 March 2016 at 03:42, Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> On 03/25/2016 06:45 PM, Andrzej Zaborowski wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Denis,
>>>
>>> On 24 March 2016 at 19:04, Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does it make sense to make glob-match values part of the tree?
>>>>
>>>> For example, I can install watch 1 with:
>>>> type='signal', path='/'
>>>>
>>>> and watch 2 with:
>>>> type='signal', sender='org.foo', path='/'
>>>>
>>>> Right now it seems we will generate 2 AddMatch cases for the above, even
>>>> though watch 2 is already covered by watch 1.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, good point.  I think we could handle that also with the current
>>> structure if we allow the nodes to be added to the tree in any order
>>> necessary, so that the "sender='org.foo'" could be a child of
>>> "path='/'" in specific cases.  This wouldn't add any cost to the
>>> filtering of incoming signals, only to adding new rules, what do you
>>> think?
>>>
>>
>> Could work, but my first thought is that it would cause lots of additional
>> processing, since you'd be trying all possible permutations.  Given that we
>> have 4-5 rules on average that's a lot of possibilities to try.  Or were you
>> thinking something else?
>
> There would be some additional processing but I think it may be okay.
> Now when adding a new rule and we're at a specific node in the tree
> we're checking if there's already a child that matches the next
> condition in the rule.  Instead we could check if there's a match for
> any of the yet unused conditions in the rule, and mark that condition
> as used or "visited".  In the typical case where most rules begin with
> a sender value this wouldn't add any overhead I think.
>

Lets give it a shot.  I ran some mental exercises and can't seem to find 
any negatives to the idea besides increasing the add filter cost by a 
factor of n, where n = number of rules being added.

The upside is that we could also get rid of the qsort this way.  The 
silent side-effecting of the input rules is less than ideal.

Regards,
-Denis