From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:55:43 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Scaleable mail repositories. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <8ccc8ba40511011429t47bf84a0y293ee9e578d311f8@mail.gmail.com> <2df4e3af3782344adbb24aae570efef9@vitanuova.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a952f986-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > on inferno i use an inverted index i wrote based on a btree. it's on > my website, called lexis. i've indexed over 5 years of plain text > emails, one per file, and can usually find anything in seconds. it > supports ranges and is general enough to support file annotations, > categories and binary relations. seconds is too long. it's really bothering me that gmail takes seconds to answer my mail searches. i feel like it used to be much faster. if i had a reasonable local interface with a fast search i'd think about switching back. russ