[PD] search plugin time optimisation

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] search plugin time optimisation
> 
> On 01/17/2013 06:33 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> 
>>>  From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>>  To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>>>  Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
>>>  Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 5:06 PM
>>>  Subject: Re: [PD] search plugin time optimisation
>>> 
>> 
>>  [...]
>> 
>>>>   * Note that my measurements are just for read times.  Xapian will 
> be 
>>>  writing to an index so
>>>>   you'll have to factor in write times for _each_ string of file 
> 
>>>  contents.  Those probably aren't
>>>>   insignificant digits.
>>> 
>>>  The Debian package could generate the cache right after installation.  
> Mac and
>>>  Windows would have to happen on first launch.  The benefits of this 
> would be
>>>  real, but it would also take a real amount of work to implement ;)
>> 
>>  For the record I have zero interest in investigating how to integrate
>>  Xapian into Pd-extended, making sure the tcl bindings actually work and 
> aren't
>>  just abandonware, making sure it actually works with comparable results on
>>  each OS (as opposed to, say, opening and closing files with tcl), and 
> integrating
>>  Xapian into the Pd-extended build process for OSX and Windows.  Those
>>  caveats aside I'd be happy to revise the search plugin to use the 
> Xapian API.
> 
> wiki.tcl.tk runs on tclxapian, so its maintained.

Ah, I didn't know that.  Good.

>The needed packages are all
> in Debian, so adding xapian support to Pd-extended on Debian-derivs will be
> trivial (Depends: tclxapian).

Then I'll do "apt-get install tclxapian" and use "package require xapian" in the search plugin
and test building an index/searching.  But anything outside my current editor window like
conf files or xapian/tcl source will be considered soldered firmly onto my motherboard.  I.e.,
I ain't touching it.

-Jonathan

> If we get that far, I'll be happy to add 
> xapian
> to the Pd-extended Windows and Mac OS X builds.
> 
> .hc