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doc/todo/allow_plugins_to_add_sorting_methods.mdwn

@@ -165,7 +165,6 @@ That earlier version of the branch is also available for comparison:
 >>>>>>> I've kept the semantics from `report` as-is, then:
 >>>>>>> e.g. `sort="age -title"`. --s
 
->>>>>
 >>>>> Perhaps we could borrow from `meta updated` and use `update_age`?
 >>>>> `updateage` would perhaps be a more normal IkiWiki style - but that
 >>>>> makes me think that updateage is a quantity analagous to tonnage or
@@ -217,6 +216,10 @@ Unfortunatly, I think that c is closest to the new implementation.
 > is sorted. Or, it might be useful to do the filtering first, then
 > sort the sub-list thus produced, then finally apply the limit? --s
 
+>> Yes, it was deliberate, pagespec matching can be expensive enough that
+>> needing to sort a lot of pages seems likely to be less work. (I don't
+>> remember what benchmarking was done though.) --[[Joey]] 
+
 ## Documentation from sort-package branch
 
 ### advanced sort orders (conditionally added to [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]])