Re: [Lxr-dev] Updates?

[Arne G. G. <ar...@gl...>]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Also, I second Max's interest in seeing the code changes, or at least a
> list of enhancements/changes.  I don't know if you've had a chance to
> follow some of the modifications I was suggesting a month or two ago,
> but I wonder if any of your changes are in those areas.

Yes, some of them are.  One of my main concerns have been scalability,
genxref-time, so there are a couple of changes in that area.  I'm using
postgres' copy for populating some of the tables, for instance.  Also,
the freetext indexes are incremental (using Xapian) in the hope that
this will scale better (both run-time and space-wise) than one full
index for every release.  (My ambition is to have all 7-800 releases of
the Linux kernel referenced and indexed on lxr.linux.no.)  Xapian also
makes it easier to provide line number information with the search
results.  The identifier lookups attempt to consider the scope of the
reference you're following.  The web interface has been redone.

> My main interest at this time is (a) collecting the various bug fixes
> that are going around and integrating those, (b) cleaning up the class
> interface to the back ends to allow new ones to be more cleanly created
> (I have at least on back end that I'd like to write, that is tricky with
> the current interface), and obviously (c) getting a new release out
> there.

I agree with your agenda.  Also, if you want to get a release out the
door as soon as possible, I'd suggest you ignore me for the time being.
 (I'd be interested in hearing more about your specific concerns
regarding (b), though.)

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								Arne.