[haiku-development] Re: TrackerGrep [was Re: missing -lm?]
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 18:53:47 +0200
On 2008-05-03 at 18:19:09 [+0200], Alexander G. M. Smith
<agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I only see a couple of disadvantages to my idea. One is the need to
> filter out multiple returns of the same file in a query. The other is
> that there are three copies of each word: one in the original document,
> one in the attribute and one in the index. A separate index server
> (like MacOS SpotLight) reduces that to two copies of each word.
Let me add two more disadvantages:
* Keyword search != full text search.
* There are well-optimized indexing solutions. I don't see the point in
even considering to brew our own one using attributes, which by design will
neither be space nor time efficient.
CU, Ingo
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