On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:39:19PM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > > So where is the perl portion? All this code does is makes two tables, > > and a simple select statement. Where is the data, where is the > > interface, what does perl have to do with it? > > Well, the question was about how they serve the results so fast > ... a simple select from simple tables ...
Google? I doubt it, I read that part of the reason for their massive clustering is that a. they keep the index in memory b. it's a tree structure based on their own C++ library c. any given query is handed to dozens of machines and then integrated a reasonable clear discussion (at a fairly high-level) is at http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
