Hi! On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:49:22PM +0100, Paul Lynch wrote: > Is there a way to tell Ferret (or AAF) to read an entire index into > memory, for faster searching? I have small index (3-4 MB) that could be > kept in memory. Or does Ferret do that automatically?
Ferret has an implementation if the Directory interface [1] for in-memory storage, however you won't gain much speed (if any) by using it, since most operating systems will keep the index in file system buffers anyway once it has been used the first time. [1] http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Store/RAMDirectory.html Cheers, Jens -- Jens Krämer http://www.jkraemer.net/ - Blog http://www.omdb.org/ - The new free film database _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
