OpenEuphoria

Re: What good is Euphoria? (was: RDMS Database's and/or Record Managers

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jan 24, 2004
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Ray Smith wrote:
> + Google uses Python heavily

Yes, but for what?
I suspect it's just for off-line, low-intensity
housekeeping chores.

Juergen Luethje wrote:
 > Google blows _my_ socks off.

When you click the search button on Google,
I sincerely doubt that a Python program is being executed.
It's very likely a C or C++ program.

I think Python would fall far short of the speed
of Euphoria on the mailing list search:

     http://www.rapideuphoria.com/listserv.htm

We're now up to 85 Mb of message data, and
messages are searchable the instant they are posted.
The search program is 1072 lines, excluding comments
and blank lines, and took a couple of man-weeks to write.
It runs on a server that's shared with dozens of other domains.

On Google, everything is heavily indexed. They
don't do much, if any, scanning of text when you click
the button. They also have very fast machines, with
tons of RAM, so almost everything can be kept in memory
at all times.

Regards,
    Rob Craig
    Rapid Deployment Software
    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com