FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Windows Vista Performance Kludges (that Haiku does not need)

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charlie Clark <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Adding full text indexing and thus searching for plain text files to  
> queries in BeOS is technically relatively easy and without a huge  
> overhead in my opinion and was probably something Be just never got  
> round to doing along with some form of indexing for none-BFS  
> partitions. I know that the absence of this feature has probably me  
> as much annoyance as anything else "missing" on BeOS and the Opera  
> mail client shows both how fast this can run.

This is not a relatively easy feature - it's quite complex, actually, 
as you a) cannot use BFS attributes/indices for this as is, and b) need 
to support more than just the English language.
IOW if you want to do it right, you'd want to extend BFS a bit, too, to 
seamlessly integrate it.

Bye,
   Axel.