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color: rgb(107, 116, 140);"><p>Is there even a need to have n QCollator objects?<br />
I'm talking about a QCollator _within_ a given view. Each view could obviously have it's own collator due to different view settings.</p></div>
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<p>Strictly speaking you need one collator per thread (it is reentrant (save the bug), but not thread-safe). As long as the collator objects are not modified, each one is just the d-pointer, as QCollator is CoW.</p>
<p>Copying a clean QCollator is cheap. Default-constructing one and modifying it is expensive - each one has to be initialize the underlying ICU (actually, this happens twice for each one, once on construction, once after the m_collator.setFoo(...) calls).</p>
<p>Using a const reference, as done here, is even slightly cheaper. But doing so is also undefined behaviour - QCollator is reentrant, but not thread-safe. We get away with it by using the forced initialization, which avoids the UB (UB only happens when the QCollator is dirty).</p>
<p>When the fix in <a href="https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/234359/3//ALL,unified" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/234359/3//ALL,unified</a> is applied, it is no longer necessary to force the <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">init()</tt> under the premise each thread uses its own private collator object (which is implicitly shared).</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R318 Dolphin</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D13814">https://phabricator.kde.org/D13814</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>jtamate, Dolphin, Frameworks, markg, elvisangelaccio, bruns<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>elvisangelaccio, apol, bruns, markg, kfm-devel, spoorun, navarromorales, firef, andrebarros, emmanuelp<br /></div>