Thats exactly how i felt. No mention of JVM/Platform or options (or versions) used. I've just been bombarded with someone (who i can probably assume works or uses the afformentioned program) asking me why i use lucene on all of my projects.
The paper hardly seems acadamic even though it appears that is what they're going for. Thanks again for the quick follow up. --- Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Byron Miller wrote: > > > http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~mladen/pdf/Read6_u.pisa-attardi.tera.pdf > > > > Anyone have any further details on this? > > The first author of the paper is also the founder of > the company which > sells the software described, so these benchmarks > should not be > considered entirely objective. > > That's not to say that IXE is not faster than > Lucene, it might well be. > But they do not list any JVM details, the Lucene > version or any Lucene > options. Chances are, with a few informed tweaks, > one could improve > Lucene's performance on this benchmark. Chances are > also that IXE was > configured for optimal performance on this > benchmark, since it was > performed by the authors of IXE. > > Also note that this is a micro-benchmark, designed > to highlight their > skip implementation. A better comparison would > average times from a log > of real user queries. > > Please feel free to try to obtain the IXE software > and perform > benchmarks of your own. > > Doug > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nutch-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-general
