On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: > Kevin Atkinson wrote: > ... > > >You misunderstand. word-list-compress simply compresses and decompresses > >a sorted word list to save space. It is not used in any way by Aspell > >itself. > > > I understood that word-list-compress was an offline utility, but I'm not > sure what you're using to search the compressed word-list on disk. That > is, how does _Aspell_ make use of the data once it's been compressed? > Is it something like a bisect algo with an index somewhere on disk to > the items in the file? (I gather by your reaction that the entire > word-list is not all loaded into memory at run-time).
Aspell does not use it directly. It decompress it first. A dictionary is created something like this: cat wordlist.cwl | word-list-compress d | aspell create master In a read in one line at a time and then loaded into memory as the new dictionary is created. Once a dictionary is created the compressed word-list is not used. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
