Reduce function v's query with limit

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I would like to select a single document based on its timestamp, I want the most recent one. So I think there are 2 ways to easily solve this, and was wondering if there were any efficiency differences between them.

Firstly I create a view with a map function that looks something like this:

  function (doc) {
    if(doc.type === 'foo') {
      emit(doc.timestamp, null);
    }
  }

As views are stored by the natural order of the keys… One option would be to add a reduce function, that just selects the last value. Something like this:

  function(keys, values, rereduce) {
    return values.length === 0 ? null : values[values.length - 1];
  }

Alternatively I could just query the view using descending = true and limit = 1 in order to pick out the last, and therefore latest document.

Is one of these approaches preferable? Is there a better 3rd option?