[pmwiki-users] Blog proposal

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Fri Dec 16 00:00:17 CST 2005


On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:36:30AM -0500, Fick, Martin wrote:
>    From: pmwiki-users-bounces at pmichaud.com on behalf of Patrick R. Michaud
>    > I've been thinking about that.  Properties alone doesn't do it,
>    > though, unless we have a way to build indexes for them.  The
>    > nice thing about the current Category implementation is that the
>    > linkindex speeds things up substantially.
> 
>      Uhmm, that's not actually always true.  I have done
>    some benchmarks in the past and this is what I think
>    I have noticed:
> ...
>      On the other hand, if you have say, a small group,
>    with only about 10 pages in it, and you have specified
>    group=smallgroup in your pagelist command, and your
>    site has about 1000 files in it, it will actually be
>    slower with the current indexing system.  

Oh, that makes sense.  But it's no problem for us to have 
pagelist use the indexing system only if the number of pages 
to be checked is large (and we can play a bit to figure out what
"large" is).  Otherwise for small sets we can just scan the
files directly.

But almost by definition, searching for page membership in
a category involves most if not all pages on the site, so some
sort of index is desirable.

Pm




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