[Xapian-discuss] Read accesses through WritableDatabase are slow

[Jean-Francois Dockes]

Thanks for the answer. Then there must be a problem in my code. I am going
to dig and will let you know if I find something amusing ...
JFD
Olly Betts writes:
 > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 09:45:14AM +0200, Jean-Francois Dockes wrote:
 > > Except if I'm mistaken, read accesses (like postlist_begin(),
 > > get_document()) through a Xapian::WritableDatabase seem to trigger writes
 > > on the database files, which makes them slow (because of the fsync()
 > > calls).
 > 
 > It depends on the backend, but in general this shouldn't be true for
 > most methods of Database when called on a WritableDatabase.
 >     [snip]
 > ...