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<font face="FreeSerif">I hadn't thought too much about the new
Xapian search usage until I had reason this morning to look at
disc usage under ~/.sword.<br>
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Xapian indices are monstrous in size.<br>
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A touchstone for this is that my personal NETnote module has
rawcom ot+nt files whose size total about 23M. But the Xapian
indices for the module are 140M. Until a little while ago,
~/.sword contained about 28G, of which 23.2G was Xapian
indices... Then I deleted all Xapian indices and am back to
CLucene using --without-xapian in Sword.<br>
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I realize the reason for Xapian is CLucene's lack of support. But
do we really want a 7-fold size increase in module space
occupation for the sake of the new indexer/search?<br>
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