From ae355de7b3debd1c9679913f919e2c06552921ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Alex A. Naanou" <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 11:27:20 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] notes...

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
---
 pwiki/path.js | 15 +++++++++++++++
 pwiki2.js     | 13 +++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pwiki/path.js b/pwiki/path.js
index b667741..6f23b24 100755
--- a/pwiki/path.js
+++ b/pwiki/path.js
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ module = {
 	// NOTE: trailing/leading '/' are represented by '' at end/start of 
 	// 		path list...
 	normalize: function(path='.', format='auto'){
+		/*/ XXX RENORMALIZE...
+		// do not re-normalize...
+		if(path.normalized && format != 'array'){
+			return path }
+		//*/
 		format = format == 'auto' ?
 			(path instanceof Array ?
 				'array'
@@ -83,11 +88,21 @@ module = {
 				return res }, []) 
 		return format == 'string' ?
 			// special case: root -> keep '/'
+			/*/ XXX RENORMALIZE...
+			Object.assign(
+				new String((root 
+						&& path.length == 1 
+						&& path[0] == '') ?
+					('/'+ path.join('/'))
+					: path.join('/')),
+				{normalized: true})
+			/*/
 			((root 
 					&& path.length == 1 
 					&& path[0] == '') ?
 				('/'+ path.join('/'))
 				: path.join('/'))
+			//*/
 			: path },
 	split: function(path){
 		return this.normalize(path, 'array') },
diff --git a/pwiki2.js b/pwiki2.js
index d80c667..539117e 100755
--- a/pwiki2.js
+++ b/pwiki2.js
@@ -6,6 +6,17 @@
 * XXX CACHE/DEPENDS might be a good idea to add a dependencyUpdated event...
 * 		...and use it for cache invalidation...
 * XXX CACHE creating a new page does not invalidate /tree cache...
+* XXX OPTIMIZE: the actions that depend on lots of tiny requests (/tree)
+* 		can get really slow...
+* 		...it feels like one reason is the async/await ping-pong...
+* 		problems:
+* 			- too many async requests
+* 				micro cache?
+* 				pack requests?
+* 			- redundant path normalization (RENORMALIZE)
+* 				mark the normalized string and return it as-is on 
+* 				renormalization...
+* 				...initial experiment made things slower...
 * XXX need a uniform way to track some state in links in pwiki for things 
 * 		like paging and the like with simple user/macro access (???)...
 * 		...the simplest that comes to mind is to store in in path 
@@ -82,8 +93,6 @@
 *				list page/store info
 *			/storage
 *				list storage usage / limits
-* XXX OPTIMIZE: /tree is really slow...
-* 		...is the problem purely in the async/await playing ping-pong???
 * XXX BUG: FF: conflict between object.run and PouchDB... 
 * XXX add action to reset overloaded (bootstrap) pages...
 * 		- per page