Hehe... Ten times slower than Lucene. I've been using Lucene for a year or two now, and I've looked into various ports, and none of them seem to be either fast enough, or production-ready. It would seem that Doug has done a hell of a job with the Java version, so let me take this opportunity to say "Thanks!"
As an aside, I note that the Ruby port mentions faster indexing through C extensions, but it doesn't say anything about searching. Personally, I don't care about indexing that much because it can be offloaded and doesn't have to be done in real time (for me anyway). I wonder if there is room for substantial improvement in the searching, or if the efficiency of Lucene there approaches theoretical limits? Sincerely, James > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Cutting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 4:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: ferret: lucene in Ruby > > I just ran accross a Ruby port of Lucene: > > http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ > > Doug
