If you don't care about search, don't read further. ===
Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY! Come see the data crunching, webpage hopping, free-styling search library action. Two monster libraries, titans of Free Software technology, compete to become the native search engine for The Mail Archive. Watch as Xapian Omega crushes and destroys the competition, finishing off queries in milliseconds. This probabilistic juggernaut is a battle tested, email chewing reigning champion in Europe. Honed for years and more hardened than quartz, Jeff Breidenbach will drive Xapian Omega during this Battle Royale. PyLucene is a mild mannered garbage collectin' programming library just like your mom's search index. That is, if your mom's search index could jump partitions, crush gigabytes down to tiny sements, and plow through millions of records. Forged on the anvil of a Xerox PARC alumni, brimming with black magic, Lucene will be wrought by the indomitable Jeff Marshall. We're taking these two byte belching, buffer oversized, monster libraries and pitting them head to head. Old geezer HtDig 3.1 will also make a final appearance in the arena. All three engines can run on any list, just by replacing gossip@jab.org with the listname of your choice. Who will win the monster rally? Xapian vs Lucene? Jeff vs Jeff? Yes, you decide! Send comments to gossip, or privately if you are shy, for the next week or so. Bonus points for using phrases like like "slamming!" "spectacular" or "crushed like a bug". Who's got the slickest user interface? Which contender has superior data-crunching performance? How about grits, determination and the baddest sounding name? Want to see something tweaked? Have questions? Ask and it will be done if humanly possible - this is a gritty bit-for-bit battle of hotrod software and programmer ingenuity no holds barred. Ladies and gentlemen... Start your search engines! HtDig3.1 http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=gossip_jab_org&words=magically Xapian Omega http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/omega/omega?P=magically&DB=gossip@jab.org PyLucene http://www.mail-archive.com/lucene/search.py?list=gossip@jab.org&query=magically _______________________________________________ Discussion list for The Mail Archive Gossip@jab.org http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip