Thanks to Knuth SKA's Merging Stage 1 is 90% faster

[ratewhore]

Well ATW, if it's going to be as big as you say then drop me a pm as you'll need some serious security on that site.

[AtW]

Oracle does that ... next.

You might as well say Cray does it - you should try to load 50 bln rows into it and then provide sub-second searches with scoring calculated on the fly.

[scotspine]

Sorry Atw but you sound like an absolute dick who knows nothing about SE tech. There are a ton of you guys out there - suggest you start a forum for frustrated Google Wanabees (more money in it, probably).

Aside from the tech problems of spidering and indexing web pages (no mean feat in itself to get right), what EXACTLY do you understand "proximity matching" to mean, and how would you achieve this?

As for "dynamic user-editable scoring" - how many users of an SE could be arsed to 'score' the results of any given search.

Dream on boy.

Bogey

"Sorry Atw but you sound like an absolute dick who knows nothing about SE tech." - i rather suspect he does. know something that is...

"tech problems of spidering and indexing web pages (no mean feat in itself to get right)" - is it such a big deal?

" how many users of an SE could be arsed to 'score' the results of any given search." - who knows?

bogeyman you sound like a knowledgeable chap. like to lend a hand when you're free with some reed-muller and binary hamming issues i'm having at the moment? where's oh when you need him?

[bogeyman]

You might as well say Cray does it - you should try to load 50 bln rows into it and then provide sub-second searches with scoring calculated on the fly.

Do you honestly think Google (et al) has some big, ******* DB table with all the URIs of pages from the internet in it?

Rows! Rows? Rows

Google don't use 'ROWS', 'TABLES' or any sort of RDBMS concepts for their indexing. They have their own custom-designed ISAM/HISAM file archictectures with inverted indexes, and other clever stuff.

Google uses very lean and mean ANSI C and some assembler, right down to the metal.

What? Did you think they used PHP + MySQL or something?

Duh! You don't really have a clue, do you AtW?

Bogey

[bogeyman]

"Sorry Atw but you sound like an absolute dick who knows nothing about SE tech." - i rather suspect he does. know something that is...

"tech problems of spidering and indexing web pages (no mean feat in itself to get right)" - is it such a big deal?

" how many users of an SE could be arsed to 'score' the results of any given search." - who knows?

bogeyman you sound like a knowledgeable chap. like to lend a hand when you're free with some reed-muller and binary hamming issues i'm having at the moment? where's oh when you need him?

Oh God, you must be from accedemia then Scotspine.

"reed-muller" and "binary hamming" - i.e. cyclic error correction!

Yeah? So ******* what?

What's so ******* tough about that?

Just because you work in a somewhat specialist field doesn't mean you somehow, magically, know more about programming, algs, or anything else for that matter.

You're just another blowhard my friend (amongst a lot of strong competition on this forum full of self-important *******).

Anyway - what happened to my old pal Tex O'Voider? (only reason I posted on this piss-pot forum in the first place).

Bogey

[AtW]

bogeyman you sound like a knowledgeable chap. like to lend a hand when you're free with some reed-muller and binary hamming issues i'm having at the moment? where's oh when you need him?

Scots - the only person who would ever need his hand is himself

[Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]

Do you honestly think Google (et al) has some big, ******* DB table with all the URIs of pages from the internet in it? Did you think they used PHP + MySQL or something?

Don't be daft, Bogey, they use a real man's tool - Access.

[DodgyAgent]

Scots - the only person who would ever need his hand is himself

AtW , the soap opera that is the story behind your SKA is more likely to make money than the software itself

[scotspine]

you must have added clairvoyance to your skillset bogeyman in order to make such acute observations about persons whom you have never met. you really have brought nothing to the table beyond a rather mean diatribe against someone who is working hard to create something. if that is the measure of your contribution, then there is something there that repels and if tex is the only reason you posted here, please be assured that the resumption of your absence would in all probability go largely unnoticed. however if indeed you wish to help with a reed muller issue, let me know. i am in any case curious why you find a simple request on the matter so provocative...? has the matter caused you some angst in the past?

[sasguru]

Oh God, you must be from accedemia then Scotspine.

"reed-muller" and "binary hamming" - i.e. cyclic error correction!

Yeah? So ******* what?

What's so ******* tough about that?

Just because you work in a somewhat specialist field doesn't mean you somehow, magically, know more about programming, algs, or anything else for that matter.

You're just another blowhard my friend (amongst a lot of strong competition on this forum full of self-important *******).

Anyway - what happened to my old pal Tex O'Voider? (only reason I posted on this piss-pot forum in the first place).

Bogey

he he. Do you mind being my own personal rottweiler when Chico reappears