On Son, 14 Mar 1999, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
>That's it. The patch changes the method used for external fuzzy databases
>to DB_HASH, over DB_BTREE. As it sounds, the hash database provides
>somewhat faster access and for unknown reasons seems to take up less disk
>space too. However, the speed bonus isn't particularly noticeable on my
>system, perhaps because the Endings DB is smallish (English), my Synonym
>file is very small, and I don't use Metaphone or Soundex matching (which
>might show benefit).
>
>The downside of the change is that it introduces database incompatibility.
>This is a problem for the endings and synonym databases, which often don't
>change.
>
>I have no preference. The potential speed gain would be nice, but I don't
>like the idea of people throwing away old DB... Thoughts?
Well, we use soundex on our system and the German affix stuff is really
huge, so the change would be nice.. although I'm afraid of redoing the
German db again (last time took a couple of days) ,-)
-- Torsten
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