From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] web-based plan 9?
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:05:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4641588cc2f8f1f35ccf4ea12b88bd1b@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4926D977.2080900@proweb.co.uk>
> xmlfs is a pain because it has anonymous entries so you need a way of
> organising it
>
> <xml>
> <a><b>123</b></a>
> <a><b>456</b></a>
> </xml>
once upon a time, when god was a small boy i worked
on a distributed search product. the search engine we
were using was OpenText whose chief tech guy was
(drumroll) tim bray. ot returned hitlists as byte offsets
encoded in (oh, you'll never guess) xml. i don't recall
the formatting exactly, but a hitlist looked something
like
<hitlist><hit><start>2313131</start><end>2313138</end></hit>...
one can imagine that using careful formatting to increase
the amount of data that needed to be moved by an order
of magnitude resulted in spectacular performance.
ah, the good old days.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-21 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-20 1:35 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-11-20 14:25 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-11-20 14:37 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2008-11-20 14:47 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-11-20 15:07 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2008-11-20 15:16 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-11-20 15:21 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2008-11-20 14:51 ` erik quanstrom
2008-11-20 18:59 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-11-20 19:25 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-11-20 22:15 ` Giacomo Tesio
2008-11-20 23:18 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-11-21 5:19 ` lucio
2008-11-21 10:15 ` Giacomo Tesio
2008-11-21 11:55 ` matt
2008-11-21 14:01 ` Tom Lieber
2008-11-21 14:34 ` matt
2008-11-21 15:13 ` Giacomo Tesio
2008-11-21 15:53 ` matt
2008-11-21 16:05 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-11-21 17:05 ` Giacomo Tesio
2008-11-21 17:18 ` erik quanstrom
2008-11-22 20:15 ` Giacomo Tesio
2008-11-21 17:24 ` matt
2008-11-21 18:12 ` a
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