On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Joshua Cranmer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/10/2012 12:49 PM, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
>>
>> Carlos Garnacho a écrit :
>>>
>>> We at Lanedo have been investigating search performance on the master
>>> plain text copy of the code, which is at the moment performed reading
>>> from file_index.txt line by line and matching on the search term.
>>
>>
>> I think one useful thing for DXR would be to have some document about what
>> the architecture is, the various steps and organisation, etc.
>>
>> I had no idea about that and I'm very surprised, why doesn't DXR use
>> glimpse for this, like MXR/LXR did ? Maybe FTS with sqlite3 is just equally
>> performant, but glimpse is the most natural choice when you just need full
>> text search (and reg exps).
>
>
> There is a note in the source code that points to a test that David Humphrey
> did with respect to full text search; the current approach was an order of
> magnitude faster than glimpse (IIRC).

This is documented here: http://vocamus.net/dave/?p=138

-Ted
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