On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 15:17 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: > Hi Steve, > On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 21:45 +1000, Steve Butler wrote: > > If the thesaurus is only loaded when the user pops it up, then > > couldn't mythes be taught to generate its own in-memory index > > from the dictionary and not bother with an index file at all? > > Right. I think we could easily serialize a small skip-list to disk too > - if we simply store ~8 or ~32 or so indexes into the data - we can > parse only a fraction of it, and pop that in our home directory. We > could also drop the MyThes code too as a depedency to manage. > > The code using it is in: > > lingucomponent/source/thesaurus/libnth/nthesimp.cxx > > > BTW, if I did that I'd probably do some major surgery on mythes and > > just use STL because it basically is doing C style memory management > > and processing and I think I would screw it up if I started messing > > with it. The only problem with simplifying it with STL constructs is > > that I would want to change the interface (string vs char *), maybe > > use STL vectors for the list of synonyms, etc. > > Heh; sure. > > > By this stage it's not looking much like mythes anymore ...
FWIW, I'm sure Nemeth would be interested if you e.g. wanted to create a reimpl of mythes that was faster than the original and perhaps simply designate the optimized version the new "mythes" version with an API/ABI change :-) C. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
