Hi Bill,

On 16 Aug 2000, at 5:40, Bill Moseley wrote:

> Hi Jose,
> 
> I've downloaded and installed the new swish lib.  This is a regular swish-e
> 2.0beta4 distribution with the library included, correct?
> 
It is true. But I had to make several important modifications to the 
code in order to get a thread safe library. So use it carefully. Do not
use it in a production environment.
At this moment, stemmer.c is not thread safe. Dave is looking at 
the code.

> I'm on the mod_perl list.  I know there are a few people on that list that
> use swish, so you think it might be good to announce the beta there,
> especially since the library is included?
> 

It sounds good to me but, perhaps, we must wait to hear from 
people's advice. As you can see the implementation is very simple
and does not follow a more poweful object approach.

> Do you think embedding swish-e in a mod_perl program is a realistic
> approach or would it consume too much memory (since often there are 20
> forked Apache children around)?  
> 
The main memory problem with swish-e happens when you are 
indexing. Searching uses less memory. But it depends on the 
search that people executes. Search for "a*" uses much more 
memory than searching for "alabama". The list of results are in
memory (including filenames and properties), so it depends in what
you are searching.
As a general rule I think that it will not consume too much memory.

> There's a lot of people on the mod_perl list that might be interested in
> the swish library.  Do you mind if I post a notice about it on that list?
> 
No problem. But just remember that it is in a very alpha state.

> You posted a problem with stemmer.c not being thread safe.  Did you resolve
> those issues?
> 
Not yet, Dave is on it.

cu
Jose