On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Michael Kay mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
following-sibling::Book[Title eq $currentAuthor and Genre eq
$currentGenre][1]
I can't see why that's obviously more efficient. They look identical to me.
The "naive" processor will perform only one and not two passes --
doing both comparisons in a single pass.
or probably even better (as a hint to the optimizer):
exists(head(following-sibling::Book[Title eq $currentAuthor and
Genre eq $currentGenre]))
Again, it's still quadratic performance if your evaluate this for every Book.
Yes, "more efficient" here is relative to the initial expression, not
in big O terms.
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