I think I am going to start a new Blog - "Zed's an Idiot". -----Original Message----- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Lucene vs. Ruby/Odeum
On Jun 1, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Daniel Naber wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 04:41, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > >> http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/ruby_odeum/performance.html >> > > Here's a follow up: > http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/ruby_odeum/odeum_lucene_part2.html > > Now the claim is that Lucene is faster than Ruby/Odeum but it takes 36 > times more memory. However, I cannot find any information on how > exactly > Lucene was started. It's no surprise that Java requires much memory > and > doesn't clean up if it never comes close to the limit set with -Xmx. I went around several times in e-mail with Zed, the author of this comparison after his follow-up. His paraphrasing of me in there is only partially sort of what I said to him. He's instantiating an IndexSearcher inside a tight loop which I told him was a very bad thing to do with Lucene and that his loops are so tight that garbage collection isn't getting a chance to kick in. He doesn't currently believe some of this from me, and also feels that adjusting the code to make Lucene happy is being unfair. I wish the RubyLucene folks would hurry up and get a port over there so that we could compare against Ruby/Odeum "fairly" :) Erik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
