[Xapian-devel] goodbye QuartzBufferedTable

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:31:00PM +0200, Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
> The normal 0.8.1:
> real    54m31.446s
> user    7m44.730s
> sys     0m54.070s
> 
> The cvs-head:
> real    23m17.052s
> user    6m1.310s
> sys     0m13.110s
> 
> The first one consumed up to 521MB of memory (480 resident), while the 
> second only used 85MB, that alone makes up for quite a performance boost 

Cool, I'm glad it's not just me (or in particular that it still makes a
big difference with less RAM).

> I haven't taken time to check the "dangerous" patch yet, but I'll have a 
> look into that (will it somehow be available in the next release?).

Probably.  It needs to be slotted in nicely, but there's not currently a
mechanism for passing flags when opening a database, so that needs to be
sorted out.

Cheers,
    Olly