QDateTime will attempt to convert unknown types of date to UTC time, which isn't
exactly a fast process. As we don't care about local timezones in the process of
sorting (as this is purely for ordering, not display to the end user), we can
force the dates to use UTC time, avoiding the unnecessary local timezone lookup.
This also adds a benchmark covering this case.
Benchmark results, Qt 5:
- before: 11, 489ms
- after: 273ms
Qt 4.8:
- before: 20, 848ms
- after: 278ms
Change-Id: I87fa6260e820b5b172d3306ff395dafe767c33ff
Reported-by: Thomas Perl <m@thp.io>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Mardegan <mardy@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
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