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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/5/25 1:07 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAHxvOVK8AdTwdvNyQ9hTpYLz914pe7n3CYpj2a2vjGRmGSW2vA@mail.gmail.com">Sword
has support for Xapian, I believe, which is a much more recent and
up to date library</blockquote>
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<font face="FreeSerif">Way back in November 2014, when Xapian's
presence in Sword was new, I experimented with it. The problem I
found is that its generated indices are absolutely humongous. At
the time, I wrote to the list here to say that they were a 7x size
increase, and that what was once a couple Gbytes had ballooned to
23.2Gbytes when I went through a round of mkfastmod for all my
installed modules.<br>
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I would reference this from sword-devel archives, but
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.crosswire.org">www.crosswire.org</a> is failing to respond right now.<br>
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