I've implemented a fast 68K search for Palms with 8-bit encodings. (It
won't work on Japanese ones, but that's all.) In fact, it's the same search
code that I use in the armlet.
Initial tests on my NX70 are very favorable. In fact, it seems to be as
much as five times as fast as the original search. But this isn't a very
good test since the NX70 is an arm unit. Out of curiosity, I'd like to see
some benchmark results on actual 68K units, comparing the old Plucker search
and my 8-bit optimized search. Please search in "search all pages" mode for
some text not found in your document as a benchmark.
To that end, I put up a copy of my fast search plucker at
www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85/dl/plucker.prc
(usual warnings about bleeding edge stuff apply! don't complain if it kills
your Palm, etc.)
The benchmark I've been using is to search for the word "junk" in St. Thomas
Aquinas's Summa Theologica. (It's not found :-) ) From memory, I think it
took about six to ten minutes. Right now, it does it in 1 min 49 sec with
the 8-bit optimized 68K search and 49 sec with the armlet search.
Alex
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Dr. Alexander R. Pruss
Department of Philosophy
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057-1133 U.S.A.
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
online papers and home page: www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85
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