Re: [VuFind-Tech] synonyms.txt and multiple languages

[Till K. <kin...@gm...>]

Am 30.09.2010 14:52, schrieb Heiko Weier:

> How big could synonyms.txt grow?

I played (we don't use it in production) with synonyms.txt files having 
about 1 million lines and two or three terms on each line. We considered 
using synonym files to look up terms in authority files (eg. SWD), but 
stopped doing that, because the complex structure of eg. SWD is not 
easily mappable to a flat Solr synonyms file.
The synonyms file is loaded into RAM when Solr starts, that's why the 
synonym lookups are pretty fast. But startup time and RAM usage grow 
considerably, when you use synonym files of that size, of course.

Till