Geoff Hutchison wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Marc Britten wrote:
>
> > a) it should be faster, with a good SQL backend it should improve
> > caching etc.
>
> Maybe. Believe it or not, but the Berkely code is pretty good in this
> respect. IMHO, higher-level search caching is probably going to have a
> greater effect and isn't SQL-related. I'm not discounting this point, but
> I've had a hard time coming up with concrete examples where this will
> happen. Complex boolean queries is about the biggest speed gain, plus
> perhaps phrase searching. I'm probably wrong--give me some good
> examples and I'll eat my words!
Some improvements may come from dispatching some tasks - such as soundex
matching - to the SQL server (which might be on another machine).
I do not see a big gain in speed from caching besides the possibility to
also have persistant database connections.
cheers,
Torsten
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