Anders Aagaard wrote:
> Jamie McCracken wrote:
>> I have ben spending the last few weeks adding in the sqlite/qdbm 
>> complete with indexer and parser.
>>
>> This is now basically functional in cvs.
>>
>> Stuff that wont work is :
>>
>> 1) RDF query
>> 2) only tracker-search (no location or mime yet in nautilus)
>> 3) exact phrase search
>>
>> I have not updated the mysql backend yet so it wont compile at the 
>> moment so you are *forced* to try out the sqlite one :)
>>
>> (I figure unless theres a strong reason to have the inferior mysql 
>> version we can phase it out?)
>>
>> New features with new indexer are:
>>
>> 1) differential indexing for faster updates
>> 2) stemming so searches for "penguin" will match against "penguins"
>> 3) Bzip compression of full text so it has much smaller footprint in the 
>> sqlite db
> 
> Why chose bzip?  Considering it's performance I'd rather choose gzip, or
> if your desperate for space 7zip (there are open linux implementations,
> p7zip or something like that).
> 

bzip has the best compression available.

If I want to balance speed and compression I would go for zlib which is 
a distinct possibility - how do people feel about this?

trade more disk space for faster indexing of text based files/documents?

(could always do both and make it a compile option)

-- 
Mr Jamie McCracken
http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/

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