Re: [c++] Plugin initialization ordering (was Re: C++: Plugin::initOrder???)

[Alan Conway <ac...@redhat.com>]

On 11/30/2009 10:52 AM, Andrew Stitcher wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 11:33 -0500, Alan Conway wrote:
>> ...
>> Point taken and apologies again. Lets have the discussion now and if we come up
>> with a better solution I'll be happy to implement it. I've opened:
>>
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-2223
>
> One comment I'd make is that the implementation is, how shall I put it,
> unscalable.
>
> Using a vector, and sorting it for every insertion of a plugin, starts
> to be a problem if you have a large number of plugins. Okay, you'd
> probably need many more plugins than we currently have but isn't that
> what we have the set<>  or perhaps map<>  data structures for?
>
> If the sort was run just once after all the plugins have been added it'd
> be fine, but otherwise I'd suggest using a set<>  with a custom "operator
> <".
>

I'd be surprised if anyone ever loaded 1000s or even 100s of plugins, but it 
would be easy to fix if you think that's a real concern.

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