[Xapian-discuss] DANGEROUS mode slower?

[Tom Mortimer]

Hi,

I've recently been running some performance tests on Xapian, using  
scriptindex to index Reuters news stories. I was surprised to get  
slower indexing with Xapian compiled for DANGEROUS database updates  
(143 docs/s vs. 169 docs/s) using the Flint back-end. This was with a  
database size of 790,000 docs, created from scratch, running on a  
generic Linux box and flushing every 10,000 docs.

What are other people's experiences of DANGEROUS?  Any ideas why I'm  
getting this result?

cheers,
Tom