Nicolas Williams wrote:
[snip]
You'd have to ask Brock for the details, but I suspect he's already
posted about it before on this list.
Brock?
Also remember that update time is very important in our model. What I
found when testing other search engines was that a) if you optimized
them after every install/uninstall (doing the equivalent of rebuilding
the index) they were slow to finish and b) if you didn't optimize them,
their performance dropped off rather quickly. Of course, having not
tested SQLite3, maybe it's solved these problems. In fact, for most
users, I'd argue that insertion/install time matters much more to them
than local search performance. Also remember that the indexes can't go
on the live CD (unless the indexes produced by SQLite are
microscopically small), that search needs to work identically (if more
slowly) when the index isn't present or that building an index from
scratch on a netbook is fast and unnoticeable to a user.
Brock
Nico
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