Comment 74 for bug 956618

(In reply to :aceman from comment #71)
> The infrastructure created in bug 970456 should make it easy to prioritize
> anything we want. Unless deciding about the priority of each contact is slow
> and so unnacceptable for large result sets.

I want to believe so too, but aren't we sorting plain *results* there *after* the fact (aka email addresses, potentially two from each card), whereas for nickname we need to retrieve that at a much earlier point where we still have access to the card (and going back from email to card would be error-prone in current flawed design of AB)? In fact, since a card can have 2 mail addresses, both of them might have to be toplisted in case of nickname match, primary address first.