On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Dan Drake<dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 at 05:21PM -0700, John H Palmieri wrote: >> How about #6429: sagedoc: make search_src and friends less OS >> dependent? This should fix the doctest failure for sagedoc.py on ppc >> OS X 10.4 (I hope). > > I'd also like to see some testing of that patch on slower computers. The > patch uses os.walk and splitlines to search every line in the Sage > library...on my work computer it's plenty fast, but it's possible that > on some computers it's quite slow. But I have no idea how slow that > might be.
It would be very nice if it built a reverse-lookup database, so that after the first search it is really fast. When Alex Clemesha wrote a full text search system for Sage a long time ago he did that (I think via sqlite), and it was nice. The drawback is that when the Sage library changes, one has to know to not use the cache (or to properly update it). > > I don't think being slow should hold up the patch, since "works, is > portable, but slow" should always beat "fast but broken/unreliable", > right? :) It depends on how slow it is. If it is a hundred times slower, I wouldn't be so sure. -- William > > Dan > > -- > --- Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> > ----- KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences > ------- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpJZi8ACgkQr4V8SljC5Lp9xgCgpND0XMj9FKBHlgNVdNUoEw7+ > fT0AoLVhGkMzYv0lLA5+W9kLBOa/FvYh > =mMkP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
