[jsword-devel] Sword drivers

[Joe Walker]

Mark wrote:

>We're still missing useful implementations of findPassage, getStartsWith
>and listWords.  This means that searches do not work on sword modules. 
>I've not taken a look at what's involved in implementing this
>functionality.
>

Would I be right in thinking that currently Sword (C++) does a brute 
force search mechanism? If so then getting up to the same level 
shouldn't be too hard, although I suspect that the Java version will be 
un-workably slow.

So are there any plans for how to do word indexes in the C++ version? Or 
did I miss it being implemented?

The SerBible indexing mechanism is fairly Java specific. It isn't based 
on serialization, but the binary format is tailored to Java, so we 
couldn't just cut and paste the code across. On the other hand we could 
have a dynamic indexing mechanism where we generate an index on the fly 
when we see a new version - that way we could be as Java specific as we 
liked.

Joe.