[jawsscripts] Re: How JAWS handles the dictionary files?
- From: Csaba Godo <arpadhazi68.jawsul@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 17:32:23 +0200
Many thanks, Doug for the idea and the phyton prog. I'll test it.
Tshaba
2013.05.21. 17:21 keltezéssel, Doug Lee írta:
> I imagine the file is loaded into memory, but this will not
> necessarily slow things down; it depends on how the data is searched.
> It would be instructive to create a huge dictionary, say via an
> automated process that renamed A<n> to Z<n> for arbitrarily large
> numbers of n values, to see if JAWS either slows down or starts
> consuming massive amounts of CPU time. I recommend a test document
> with no renamed values in it and another that is chocked full of them,
> for comparison. I've never tested this sort of thing.
>
> Here's a quick Python program to generate such a file. Usage:
> something like python gendict.py 5000 > notepad.jdf
>
> #! /usr/bin/env python
> # Save as gendict.py (or whatever you like)
> # Requires Python to be installed.
> import os, sys
> n = int(sys.argv[1])
> for i in range(0, n):
> print ".A%d.Z%d." % (i, i)
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 05:12:12PM +0200, Csaba Godo wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Could somebody tell me it how JAWS handles the dictionary files? Iwould
> like to know if entries are loaded into the memory on startup or JAWS
> reads entries on the fly like Windows reads the ini file entries.
>
> I would like to extend the Hungarian default JAWS dictionary with over
> 5,000 entries but I don't want to slow down the machine with memory
> overloading. So I would like to know if JAWS reads these files only
> during text processing or the whole file is loaded into the memory and
> JAWS looks these in-memory-file up during the process?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Csaba
>
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