[sword-devel] intro + testing programs

[Martin Gruner]

Hi Rayden,

it's really cool that you're very motivated to do something.
But I want to recommend that we syncronize our efforts and agree before 
pursuing a special direction. Not that I don't want you to do something, but 
I am not the only one on this list, and I am esp. not in charge here...
So Troy or Chris it would be cool if you could give some hints on what to do 
when etc.   Troy can also give you cvs write access if he wants to.

So IMO maybe you can just start with the compression thing now, give us these 
statistics and then try to integrate it into sword if it fits our needs after 
Troy explained how to do this most easily?

Anyway I'm glad you're here! Again I do not want to discourage you, but I 
want everything to be in oder and unity here.

Martin


> > Definitely! You could try porting the sword lib to Psion.
>
> ok.  i'll give it a go, and see what happens!
>
> > Definitely interested too.
> > But IMO for bibles there are different ways of storing information in the
> > index, esp. using bitmaps for large search results (1bit = 1verse) that
>
> can
>
> > easily be combined with logical operators (AND, OR etc...).
> > This will need some discussion and input from the others, but that is
> > something you could work on! But let's start with the compression.
>
> ok.  i'll download the source, and put it in.  should, in theory, work.
>
> i'll try it out.
>
> >Imo sword
> > has an architecture open for different compression algorithms, so
>
> integrating
>
> > your algorithm should be rather easy...
>
> good... makes my job a LOT easier. lol.
>
> > >   ps, does your c++ compiler support assembly sub-routines.  some don't
> >
> > Because sword does run on different architectures you cannot use
> > assembler code. Well written c++ code and a good compiler should be
> > almost as
>
> fast...
>
>
> doh!  forgot that.  it's not that much of a problem, i'll translate to c++
> (gives me a chance to  do some more work on my c++ code anyhow!
>
> > Martin
> >
> > P.S. please turn off HTML in emails. Thank you.
>
> oops.  sorry.  didn't realise it was still on!
>
> yours in christ,
>
>
> rayden (aka chris)