Re: solicting user stories of picolisp

2010-07-21 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Alex, if I understand it well, you have all the articles locally on one machine. I wonder how long a simple grep over the article blobs would take? 22 seconds seems very long for any serious use. Have you Such numbers are very variable, and difficult to predict. I'm not sure what you

Re: solicting user stories of picolisp

2010-07-21 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Tomas, Such numbers are very variable, and difficult to predict. I'm not sure what you mean. How long does a simple grep over the article blob files take? That should serve as a rough indicator about worst case behaviour. I'm not talking about the timings of 'grep', but of the

Re: solicting user stories of picolisp

2010-07-21 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Henrik, 1.) This is what each remote looks like by way of E/R: (class +WordCount +Entity) (rel article =C2=A0 (+Ref +Number)) (rel word =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0(+Aux +Ref +Number) (article)) (rel count =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (+Number)) (rel picoStamp (+Ref +Number)) (dbs =C2=A0 =C2=A0 (4

Re: solicting user stories of picolisp

2010-07-21 Thread Henrik Sarvell
Thomas, you have to read http://picolisp.com/5000/-2-I.html if you want to understand how it works completely. And the problem is of course that it's slow (regardless of where or what) and I don't really have the time to fix it :-) On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Alexander Burger

Re: solicting user stories of picolisp

2010-07-20 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Henrik, Currently vizreader.com contains roughly 350 000 articles with a full word index (not partial). The word index is spread out on virtual remotes ie they are not really on remote machines, it's more a way to split up the physical database files on disk (I've written on how that is

Re: solicting user stories of picolisp

2010-07-20 Thread Henrik Sarvell
Hi Tomas. 1.) This is what each remote looks like by way of E/R: (class +WordCount +Entity) (rel article (+Ref +Number)) (rel word (+Aux +Ref +Number) (article)) (rel count (+Number)) (rel picoStamp (+Ref +Number)) (dbs (4 +WordCount) (3 (+WordCount word article picoStamp))) The

Re: solicting user stories of picolisp

2010-07-19 Thread Henrik Sarvell
Currently vizreader.com contains roughly 350 000 articles with a full word index (not partial). The word index is spread out on virtual remotes ie they are not really on remote machines, it's more a way to split up the physical database files on disk (I've written on how that is done on

Re: solicting user stories of picolisp

2010-07-19 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Edwin, if anybody would be so kind to share how they have experienced running picolisp in production. fine, not just stories, but also numbers. how Since we are using PicoLisp in production since 1986, I could perhaps tell a lot if I should remember it all. Concerning numbers, we have

Re: solicting user stories of picolisp

2010-07-19 Thread Edwin Eyan Moragas
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Mateusz Jan Przybylski dexen.devr...@gmail.com wrote: However, a (quick'n'dirty) HTML HTTP application in PicoLisp got me a v= ery good grade for `Programming languages paradigms' course at Uni. The lecturer never heard of Lisp before; after listening to my

Re: solicting user stories of picolisp

2010-07-19 Thread José Romero
El Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:46:55 +0200 Alexander Burger a...@software-lab.de escribi=C3=B3: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 04:39:08PM +0200, Mateusz Jan Przybylski wrote: The lecturer never heard of Lisp before; after listening to my explanations he wrapped it up with: ``So this Lisp is a newfangled

Re: solicting user stories of picolisp

2010-07-19 Thread Peter Fischer
On 19.07.2010 18:46, Alexander Burger wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 04:39:08PM +0200, Mateusz Jan Przybylski wrote: ``So this Lisp is a newfangled language, quite like Ruby, right?'' I'm deeply shocked! I'm not surprised. In 2010, people like wrapping yet another library in yet