[Xapian-discuss] timing behaviour for creating large queries

[Bill Crawford]

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 17:27, Richard Boulton wrote:

> The C++ interface supports a constructor which takes a sequence of terms 
> to build an OR query out of - this should get around the quadratic 
> complexity you're seeing (though I haven't tested to check).  I'm not 
> belive that construction method is available from Perl, having taken a 
> quick peek at the XS code.

It does indeed, at least in the version I'm using:

  if (scalar @filterTerms) {
    my $filter = Search::Xapian::Query->new (OP_AND, @filterTerms);
    $query = Search::Xapian::Query->new (OP_FILTER, $suppliedQuery, $filter);
  } else {
    $query = $suppliedQuery;
  }

Basically if you pass in more than one argument, they all have to be EITHER 
search terms OR already constructed (sub)query objects.

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