[sword-devel] Some other fast search index options

[Troy A. Griffitts]

> ...sometimes.  I've certainly found some STEP books that it wouldn't
> decompress correctly, but that could be just because of me making a
> mistake with the rather obtuse API.

Paul, Paul, Paul.... :)

The compression routine works for lzss compressed data.  It knows
nothing about STEP.  If the STEP module used the prescribed lzss
compression, then it should work :)

Obtuse!?!??  :)  I thought the API was clever 3 years ago! :)  It's
really not that bad in my opinion.  It gives you some options that might
not be intuitive, like subclassing and overriding only a few methods to
make it work against other datasources besides string buffers, but you
don't HAVE to use these if you don't want to.  The simplest use is:

SWCompress *compression = new LZSSCompress();
compression.Buf(plainText);
compressedText = compression.zBuf();

or 

compression.zBuf(compressedText);
plainText = compression.Buf();


Now that's not TOO OBTUSE is it?!



> ...and not with a very high compression ratio.  Far better to
> standardise on something like zlib or bzip2.

Change the above line in the example:

-SWCompress *compression = new LZSSCompress();
+SWCompress *compression = new ZipCompress();

You can make a BZipCompress::SWCompress for us if you really want to.