On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Eric Wilhelm <enoba...@gmail.com> wrote: > An index with support for $n languages doesn't seem to > gain much over $n similarly structured indexes.
If Parrot itself supports trans-language calls (which I'm led to understand it can?) then a single index gives us the potentially huge win of cross-language dependencies. That is not to say, of course, that we don't want _fragmented_ indexes as a separate performance feature. The current index is already pretty large, even if you stripped out the waste and moved to a LZMA-compressed SQLite database. Some kind of support for fragmenting the indexes would probably be useful (although not utterly essential). Adam K
