[bt-devel] BibleTime 1.1beta1

Joachim Ansorg bt-devel@crosswire.org
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:05:22 +0100


Ignore, got it working with some improvements in BT.

Joachim


> Hi!
>
> This is strange! I can't see speed improvements in the search!
> I searched for "God love world" in the uncompressed KJV with all
> filters turned off. It took around 4 seconds!!
>
> I can't believe this is ok, because this machine has 1.2GHz and enough ram.
> Maybe I got an  old Sword version from CVS?
> The last changelog entries were
> 18-Feb-2002     Troy A. Griffitts <scribe@crosswire.org>
>         Added dglassey's conditional reallocation of entrybuf to drivers
>         Added dglassey's update to makesystem for icu
>         Added other optimizations for prep of 1.5.3
>
> 16-Feb-2002     Troy A. Griffitts <scribe@crosswire.org>
>         Added getBookName and getBookAbbrev to VerseKey along
>
> But this seems to be the current CVS. Strange ...
>
> Joachim
>
> > Search should be about 400% faster :)  Got qpsword on my handheld to go
> >
> > >from 1min 18 seconds to 19 seconds :)
> >
> > On my desktop it went from about 2.4 seconds to about .85 seconds.
> >
> > (That's searching for "God love world" through the complete compressed
> > KJV with 4 options filters that all need to be turned off.  This is
> > about the worst case search in sword right now).
> >
> > But basically all text retrieval and filter methods have been optimized.
> >
> > 	-Troy.