> When you write another MySQL-based search engine, you
> obviosly test it issuing queries against big amounts of data which
contains more
> or less sane text. Tell me, where (or how) you usually get the text
> when you need, say, 10GB of it and, I repeat, it should be a REAL
> non-repeating text, not just would-be words randomly generated with a
filler script?
10G maybe a bit high, but when I wanted a few tens of MB to test MySQL
FULLTEXT. I downloaded some books from Project Gutenberg and wrote a tiny
app to split them into records with one sentence in each record.
MySQL proved blindingly fast on the King James Bible (8Mb, 30,000 records).
Alec Cawley
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