From 777e57cfce5f0d688d4147bf183723d539db6134 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 01:05:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] note on why gnunet-gns can be slow

---
 src/gns/gns_tld_api.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/gns/gns_tld_api.c b/src/gns/gns_tld_api.c
index e62bc437d..c4bf78477 100644
--- a/src/gns/gns_tld_api.c
+++ b/src/gns/gns_tld_api.c
@@ -128,8 +128,7 @@ static void
 eat_tld (char *name, const char *tld)
 {
   GNUNET_assert (0 < strlen (name));
-  if ((NULL == tld) ||
-      (strlen (name) == strlen (tld)))
+  if ((NULL == tld) || (strlen (name) == strlen (tld)))
   {
     strcpy (name, GNUNET_GNS_EMPTY_LABEL_AT);
   }
@@ -337,7 +336,10 @@ GNUNET_GNS_lookup_with_tld (struct GNUNET_GNS_Handle *handle,
     }
     GNUNET_free (dot_tld);
   }
-
+  /* FIXME: this call is still shitty slow to do the longest
+     prefix if we have thousands of egos. We should modify
+     the IDENTITY API to do the longest prefix matching
+     inside of the identity service and not do an O(n) IPC! */
   ltr->id_co =
     GNUNET_IDENTITY_connect (ltr->gns_handle->cfg, &identity_zone_cb, ltr);
   if (NULL == ltr->id_co)
-- 
2.25.1