On 2 Mar 2005, at 7:53 pm, Chris Little wrote:
The standard linear search is the most general purpose search algorithm, and I think general purpose is what we need to maintain. For people who want faster searches, there is indexed searching available.
While this in some sense is true. The method might be the most general but *our* algorithm is not the most general purpose search algorithm. For instance, lucene can do fuzzy and proximity (within verses) which we aren't close to being able to do. It can also do simpler things like NOT, wildcards and metadata; and this within the one query. And it does these instantly.
Searching is the most criticised feature of MacSword (using our current method) the most common critisisms are the speed and the strange syntax, or double wildcard searching. eg. god finding Gudgodah
Using lucene has given MacSword one of the best search bible engines around. Although some day I might out-grow lucene, it has given me a much much more powerful, fast and general search engine than our current theoretically "general" engine.
Having said all that, nothing I've done has affected the sword library. I link to the lucene jar straight from MacSword and use my own code to do all the searching.
Hope this is persuasive. :)
--will
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