performance improvement

gui/auction_listing.lua

@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ local methods = {
         self.isSorted = nil
         self:SetSelectedRecord(nil, true)
 
-        sort(self.records, function(a, b) return sorting.multi_lt(temp-A(a.search_signature, tostring(a)), temp-A(b.search_signature, tostring(b))) end)
+        sort(self.records, function(a, b) return sorting.multi_lt(a.search_signature, b.search_signature, tostring(a), tostring(b)) end)
 
         local records = self.records
         if getn(records) == 0 then return end

tabs/post/core.lua

@@ -148,20 +148,20 @@ function update_auction_listing()
         end
         sort(auction_rows, function(a, b)
             return sorting.multi_lt(
-                temp-A(
                     a.record.unit_buyout_price == 0 and huge or a.record.unit_buyout_price,
+	                b.record.unit_buyout_price == 0 and huge or b.record.unit_buyout_price,
+
                     a.record.unit_blizzard_bid,
+	                b.record.unit_blizzard_bid,
+
                     a.record.stack_size,
+	                b.record.stack_size,
+
                     b.record.own and 1 or 0,
-                    a.record.duration
-                ),
-                temp-A(
-                    b.record.unit_buyout_price == 0 and huge or b.record.unit_buyout_price,
-                    b.record.unit_blizzard_bid,
-                    b.record.stack_size,
-                    a.record.own and 1 or 0,
+	                a.record.own and 1 or 0,
+
+                    a.record.duration,
                     b.record.duration
-                )
             )
         end)
     end

util/sort.lua

@@ -14,16 +14,15 @@ function public.compare(a, b, desc)
     end
 end
 
-function public.multi_lt(xs, ys)
-    local i = 1
-    while true do
-        if xs[i] and ys[i] and xs[i] ~= ys[i] then
-            return xs[i] < ys[i]
-        elseif not xs[i] and ys[i] then
+function public.vararg.multi_lt(arg)
+	for i = 1, getn(arg), 2 do
+        if arg[i] and arg[i + 1] and arg[i] ~= arg[i + 1] then
+            return arg[i] < arg[i + 1]
+        elseif not arg[i] and arg[i + 1] then
             return true
-        elseif not ys[i] then
+        elseif not arg[i + 1] then
             return false
         end
-        i = i + 1
-    end
+	end
+	return false
 end