----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andreas Jung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Chris Withers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Casey Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Steve Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Wolfram Kerber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 09:55 Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Catalog improvements
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Andreas Jung wrote: > > > I think the software "MG" from the book "Managing Gigabytes" is GPLed and > > currently > > released as mg-1.21. Walking through the TOC of the book, it seems to be a > > very detailed > > sources about text processing and gives very much informations about > > different indexes types. > > But I miss some explanations about current data structures like suffix > > arrays or suffix tree > > that have several advantages for text processing compared to B-Trees. > > Suffix Trees/Tries take up a *lot* of space. But they are very fast, and > useful for searching for substrings. Usually four times the amount of the data to be indexed ;-) Andreas _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
