Commit e8c9e65816 "qom: Make "info qom-tree" show children sorted"
sorts children the simple, stupid, quadratic way. I thought the
number of children would be small enough for this not to matter. I
was wrong: there are outliers with several hundred children, e.g ARM
machines nuri and smdkc210 each have a node with 513 children.
While n^2 sorting isn't noticeable in normal, human usage even for
n=513, it can be quite noticeable in certain automated tests. In
particular, the sort made device-introspect-test even slower. Commit
3e7b80f84d "tests: improve performance of device-introspect-test" just
fixed that by cutting back its excessive use of "info qom-tree".
Sorting more efficiently makes sense regardless, so do it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200714160202.3121879-6-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
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