[Xapian-discuss] Performance of range searches

[Olly Betts]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 02:09:39PM -0700, Alex Neth wrote:
> It seems like Xapian is not well suited for what I am doing right now  
> until range searches are optimized, which it sounds like may happen  
> for 1.1.  That's too bad because I really want to switch :(.

Yeah, heavy use of values has some slow cases in 1.0.x, which is why
we've overhauled how they're stored.

> How is development on the new backend going?  Will ruby bindings be  
> available in conjunction?  I'd love to try it out once the value range  
> stuff takes advantage of the storage improvements.

The new backend is pretty much finished for "streamed values".  The
library just needs hooking up in other places internally to use them.

There may be some other unrelated changes to the new backend still
though.

All the bindings are already available for it.  You can download
snapshot tarballs if you want to look:

http://xapian.org/bleeding

Cheers,
    Olly