Currently, to resolve occurrence and concurrence, the program has to query each
of the files for the relevant offices. Storing the necessary information
centrally would:
1. allow the liturgical day to be determined before loading the data files
(useful for evaluating conditions that depend on the day);
2. speed up the calculation of the day (see below); and
2 bis. remove a significant obstacle to the timely determination of the
kalendar for an arbitrary date.
Regarding no. 2: this is less of an advantage when actually compiling an hour,
as the program will have to subsequently access all/most/some of the files
anyway, but it should help the monthly kalendar display significantly.
The beginnings of this exist in the K*.txt files. We'd need to add rank
information and data on the temporal cycle, plus other odds and ends.
This is probably not something to be embarked upon any time soon, but I thought
it was worth bearing in mind for the future.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by igregord on 30 Jan 2012 at 11:08
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
igregordon 30 Jan 2012 at 11:08