Jim Leonard wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
Sounds more like it needs rewriting in a more
efficient language to me
Python compiles to p-code, it's fine. I'm sure the code is inefficient,
or he has REALLY slow disk.
Either way, the indexing doesn't need to be run every single night; once
a week is fine.
I don't like Python, but I don't think it's to blame here. I've got a
website setup on my VMS server where I have a lot of information that I want
to be able to search. IIRC, the search software I'm running is written in
C, and it is less than 18GB of data (18GB 10K LVD drive on a UW-SCSI
controller). I think it tooks something like three hours last time I
indexed the data (the data is basically static, so I run the update manually
when I add more).
Zane