Bernhard Weisshuhn scribbled on 5/9/05 11:23 AM:
> Peter Karman wrote:
> 
>> Plucene I have only read about; I love Perl, but for performance 
>> reasons, I just can't imagine using Plucene in any kind of production 
>> environment. Hobbyists, personal websites, etc., seem fine, but Perl 
>> just isn't robust enough, imo, to stand up against Lucene (Java) or 
>> Swish-e (C).
> 
> 
> Jehovah! Jehovah! Let the flames begin!
> Whoever mentions the term 'classpath' first, loses!
> Whoops, that would be me then :-)
> 
> I for one happen to know quite a few hardcore mission critical perl 
> applications running at telcos and also some very unstable J2EE 
> applications (yes, also vice-versa...)
> 
> More interesting: Did anybody benchmark a plucene-application against 
> swish-e recently?

Let me try and nip this in the bud. :)

I realize I should have said "Plucene just isn't robust enough..." not Perl. I 
realize that Perl is robust enough (amazon.com anyone?). I was referring to the
opinion of the Plucene maintainer from a year ago:
http://www.kasei.com/pipermail/plucene/2004-May/000151.html

It would be interesting to hear his opinion today, and yes, see some plucene vs 
lucene vs swish-e benchmarks. Does anyone have a portable benchmark suite available?
-- 
Peter Karman  .  http://peknet.com/  .  peter(at)not-real.peknet.com