Index Styles and such

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 11/16/05 10:22 PM, "Ed Kleban" <Ed at Kleban.com> wrote:

> Do index styles work with fields that are indexedByWords so that I can
> specify a list of words to be excluded from indexing?

YES. 

Read docs. Index Stlyes only and can do this -- have black list :-)
 
> How much performance loss does Valentina incur for processing char fields
> stored on disk as UTF-8 since it has to convert them to UTF-16 every time it
> does an search or comparison?

Stop. 

UTF8 encoding for disk is not solid. Do not use it.
 
CPU conversion of strings is only 1%
But reduce of db size in 2 times can give you 50% of win,

But NOT works now.


> If the string "aaaa bbbb aaaa bbbb " is indexedByWords, then presumably
> there is only a single index entry for "aaaa", not two?

Right 

> Thus its necessary
> to parse lines found on a match to scan for multiple occurrences of the
> search string?

If you need this 

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

[I feel the need: the need for speed]