OpenEuphoria

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

• Posted by "Hayden McKay" <hmck1 at dodo.com.au> Jan 25, 2004
• 441 views

When you press search in 90% of search engins, C or C++ code look for a
websites meta tags. In other words If you edit your meta data correctly, you
dont even have to put your domane name on a list.
I coul'nt imagin Python being used for this. It would be to slow
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Craig" <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: What good is Euphoria? (was: RDMS Database's and/or Record
Managers


>
>
> 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
>
>
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