Re: Value of moving OPTIONAL clauses to the end of a graph pattern?

But run to another implementation first ;)

On 20 Dec 2012, at 21:17, Chime Ogbuji wrote:

> If the implementation evaluates the patterns in the order you provide (rather than determine an optimal evaluation strategy independent of the structure of the given query), I think it does make sense.  
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> Chime Ogbuji
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> On Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Bob DuCharme wrote:
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>> Since OPTIONAL clauses have no chance of reducing the search space for
>> their containing graph pattern, does it make sense as a general rule of
>> thumb to put them after all the ones that do, i.e. after the
>> non-OPTIONAL triple patterns?
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> Bob
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