[Chicago-talk] search indexers

[Steve Peters]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 06:53:17PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote:
> >
> > The funny thing is that Lucene (the java version) is amazingly  
> > fast, so either perl sux,
> > or the implementation of plucene does. I'm guessing it's not perl.
> >
> > I'm experimenting with a few things. If any work out I'll let you  
> > know.
> 
> It's a huge memory hog, too, I've heard.
> 
> I don't think Simon intended it for prime time.
> 

I wonder how much Plucene could be improved with some modest application
of XS code.  It is remarkable in that it is pure Perl, but that may be
a bit of a drawback for this type of application.

Steve Peters
steve at fisharerojo.org