From: rgh@roughage.com.au (Richard Heycock)
Subject: [sup-talk] xapian merged into next
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:33:16 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248740968-sup-759@wrasse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248711777-sup-9329@entry>
Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Tue Jul 28 02:27:42 +1000 2009:
> Reformatted excerpts from Guillaume Quintard's message of 2009-07-27:
> > The big question is: is it interesting, as a user, to switch? :-)
>
> Yes. It's noticeably faster than Ferret, especially for loading large
> threads in thread-index-mode. (Which isn't Xapian per se, but other
> improvements Rich has made).
>
> It's also much larger on disk, though there might be a way to trim that
> down.
>
> At some point I want to deprecate Ferret, since it's unmaintained, so
> you'll be forced to switch. No timeline on that though.
Just to add to Williams answer not only is it faster it's also
*significantly* more robust. I'm running Debian unstable which, at the
moment is really living up to it's name, consequently my machine is
dying a lot more times than it should and I haven't had to rebuild the
index once. Compare that to ferret where I pretty much has to rebuild
the index every time; I even wrote myself a one line script to do it.
William there is work being done on the next xapian "engine" which aims
to reduce the disc size.
rgh
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-28 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-27 16:13 William Morgan
2009-07-27 16:16 ` Guillaume Quintard
2009-07-27 16:27 ` William Morgan
2009-07-27 16:31 ` Guillaume Quintard
2009-07-27 16:44 ` William Morgan
2009-07-27 16:47 ` Guillaume Quintard
2009-07-27 16:50 ` William Morgan
2009-07-27 17:09 ` Guillaume Quintard
2009-07-27 17:34 ` William Morgan
[not found] ` <1e5fdab70908010934l30373447r4a405c5ca0e406f9@mail.gmail.com>
2009-08-01 17:44 ` [sup-talk] Fwd: " Guillaume Quintard
2009-08-01 18:14 ` Rich Lane
2009-08-01 18:31 ` Guillaume Quintard
2009-08-01 23:03 ` Rich Lane
2009-08-01 23:35 ` Guillaume Quintard
2009-07-27 20:04 ` [sup-talk] " Guillaume Quintard
2009-07-28 3:33 ` Rich Lane
2009-07-28 15:13 ` William Morgan
2009-07-28 0:33 ` Richard Heycock [this message]
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