Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 20:37:20 -0500 (EST)
* List: htdig3-dev@sob.htdig.org
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> That sounds reasonable to me. I'd bet that the other fields are too small
> to get decent compression anyway, but I may be wrong. In any case, if we
> only compress/decompress the DocHead as needed, that would greatly cut
> down the number of times we'd need to do that (once per document).
The only other candidate IMHO is the DocMetaDsc. In general, I doubt that
this field would get much compression, but with Hans-Peter's short int
patch and his url_alias patch, the others will be better.
So let's try switching compression to the DocHead methods and see how
compression ratios and speed compare.
Another note is that we can consider (post 3.1.0) compressing
db.wordlist.work. Of course, I'd like to scrap that file entirely, but
that's another topic.
-Geoff
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