On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I tried this out on an old 750 MHz sparc with cmucl, the oldest and
> slowest machine I have access to. From the maxima prompt until "?
> run_testsuite" returns, it takes about 7 sec. A tad slow, but not
> terribly slow. About 3 sec for the next invocation.
> ...
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I haven't been following this whole thread, so please correct me if I'm
misunderstanding something.
You're saying that indexing 3MB of text takes 7 seconds, and fetching a ~1k
block of text from a *known location *on a disk file takes 3 seconds?
These numbers are 2 orders of magnitude off -- something is very very
wrong. Fetching a 1k block should take << 50mS -- for that matter,
fetching it off the *Web* should take < 200 mS.
And I don't understand why building the index at runtime makes any sense at
all.
-s