OpenEuphoria

Re: Robert...EDS - questions/comments

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Feb 12, 2001
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On 12 Feb 2001, at 12:34, matthewwalkerlewis at YAHOO.COM wrote:

> 
> Another way to do this would be to use indices with your db.  I have some
> plans
> to do just that with my EuSQL package, which should make [some] queries very
> fast. 

I have a problem that can only be solved with brute force, since it involves
comparisons
with 150,000 words, minimum,,, and if that works out, it could be expanded to a 
million. Problem is, 150K comparisons takes 82 seconds on my K2-6-266, and i am 
not convinced buying a faster puter will solve it, simply because that is a
software
based retrieval and compare solution. Even if a 5x faster 1Ghz dedicated puter
were
thrown at the problem, a 10 word sentence would still take 3 minutes to run,
which is
intolerable. I wish i could get my hands on one or more of the mythical Lisp
machines,
where hardware was thrown at the problem.

Has anyone else given this a thought? Has anyone here met one of these machines,
or know about them?

Kat