At 1:45 PM -0500 12/17/98, Joe R. Jah wrote:
>1. It takes considerably longer to search ( 10 to 20 times) than
> 3.1.b2
I'm not surprised that it's slower to search, but that seems pretty big.
Perhaps inefficient memory usage in the new search code is causing your
searches to switch to VM. I haven't noticed a big speed hit. The discussion
about sorting results exposed some really poor use of memory in 3.1.0b3
which will be fixed.
>2. Many of the pages present in 3.1.b2 results, are absent in
> 3.1.b3 results.
I'm guessing that they're *there*, but the ranking has changed. If you see
the release notes, I expect the changes to generally produce more accurate
results. But it seems to pick a few pages that it feels are really good and
give them significantly higher rankings.
>3. I can not explain the size changes of the db.wordlist and db.words.db
> files.
The db.wordlist file *should* be a little smaller in 3.1.0b3. Thanks to a
patch by Didier Gautheron, we remove repetitive information in that file.
However, this version records the text of links pointing to a page, so
there are usually more word entries. So the db.words.db file, which can't
benefit from the patch, is likely to be larger.
In short, this is to be expected.
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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