Re: [Imdbpy-devel] SOUNDEX and imdbpy

2006-04-09 Thread Davide Alberani
On Apr 08, Giuseppe Corbelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The usage performance is more important, isn't it? Absolutely! And database independence is a benefit that compensates even a noticeable slow down at insert time. Having said that, 5 or 6 hours to complete are a very long time, and I hope

Re: [Imdbpy-devel] SOUNDEX and imdbpy

2006-04-08 Thread Giuseppe Corbelli
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:26:43PM +0200, Davide Alberani wrote: ... > > I'm also open minded to to write a little benchmark, for checking > > both approaches, which is the more promising one. > > I think there will be a lot to test, in the future; I fear that > the switch to SQLObject and the su

Re: [Imdbpy-devel] SOUNDEX and imdbpy

2006-04-08 Thread Davide Alberani
On Apr 07, Martin Kirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On the other side, I think that at _usage_ time, performances > >won't be greatly affected (maybe no more than 1.2x or 1.5x) > > Are all SOUNDEX - values in this style/syntax? Yes, they are. Some algorithms will output an upper char followed

Re: [Imdbpy-devel] SOUNDEX and imdbpy

2006-04-07 Thread Martin Kirst
Hi There! I fear I've not expressed myself clearly (Pardon! Even my Klingon is better than my English... ;-) Don't know about your Klingon, but your English is very good. And maybe, sometimes I should read e-mails with more care ;-) [... good explanation about SOUNDEX ...] I believe, that

Re: [Imdbpy-devel] SOUNDEX and imdbpy

2006-04-07 Thread Davide Alberani
On Apr 06, Martin Kirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody! Hi! > I think it is not a good idea to pre calculate all the combinations > of a movie title (person name and so on) which are possible. I fear I've not expressed myself clearly (Pardon! Even my Klingon is better than my Eng

[Imdbpy-devel] SOUNDEX and imdbpy

2006-04-06 Thread Martin Kirst
Hello everybody! While I was reading the last devel-mails there was something that came to my mind about the SOUNDEX feature. I think it is not a good idea to pre calculate all the combinations of a movie title (person name and so on) which are possible. Because of, If we assume 10.000 movie tit