Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Tue Jul 28 02:27:42 +1000 2009: > Reformatted excerpts from Guillaume Quintard's message of 2009-07-27: > > The big question is: is it interesting, as a user, to switch? :-) > > Yes. It's noticeably faster than Ferret, especially for loading large > threads in thread-index-mode. (Which isn't Xapian per se, but other > improvements Rich has made). > > It's also much larger on disk, though there might be a way to trim that > down. > > At some point I want to deprecate Ferret, since it's unmaintained, so > you'll be forced to switch. No timeline on that though.
Just to add to Williams answer not only is it faster it's also *significantly* more robust. I'm running Debian unstable which, at the moment is really living up to it's name, consequently my machine is dying a lot more times than it should and I haven't had to rebuild the index once. Compare that to ferret where I pretty much has to rebuild the index every time; I even wrote myself a one line script to do it. William there is work being done on the next xapian "engine" which aims to reduce the disc size. rgh _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
