[Xapian-discuss] standalone xapian server

[Alexander Lind]

James Aylett wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:05:10AM -0700, Alexander Lind wrote:
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>   
>> It would be very sad to have to resort to that, assuming such a
>> solution would be a lot slower than using the bindings.
>>     
>
> Unless you're passing huge amounts of data between the two there's no
> reason to think it would be a lot slower. It might not be any slower
> at all.
>
>   
But take for example an indexing script, that will call several various 
xapian functions for each new document it indexes, or each old document 
it updates - this must be much slower if talking via http than with an 
internal php object?

Alec