On May 16, 2005, at 10:41 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
Some interesting stuff...
http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/ruby_odeum/performance.html
That's nice flamebait for sure. The fact of the matter is that JVM startup speed is a well-known issue and to truly compare indexing/ searching speed the startup of the Ruby interpreter or JVM should not be included.
Practically though, if your searches are occurring from command-line tools then certainly the startup of the VM is a factor to consider, sure. But in the Java world, most uses of Lucene would not be from a command-line tool in this manner.
All that said - Odeum and the Ruby wrapper to it appear to be well done and deserve great credit.
I am working on phasing more of my work into Ruby, so full-text search in that environment is important to me (even if it means having Java Lucene server communicating to Ruby).
The Ruby (and Rails) hype is a bit too antagonistic towards Java, and the same is true in reverse with a lot of Java folks defensive against Ruby. Ruby is a great language and I likely will be developing more and more there.
Erik
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