Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] sphinx-1.0.0 (stable) Released.

On 1/29/09 2:43 AM, Uwe Steinmann wrote:

Hi Antony, good to hear to have an alternative to the php-api shipped with sphinx. Do you have any idea on whether this is faster than the php-api? And if it is, how much faster it is? Are there other advantages?

I will be testing this very soon to see if it helps with large data sets. The PHP api will hit a memory limit of 256MB when reading in the stream from the server for large data sets. These are >1k and < 10k size data sets. 10k ints and some stats seems like not a lot to me. I am hoping that this one will not have this problem. As for speed. Doing binary packing and unpacking and stream reading should be faster in C than PHP. The PHP code runs C code underneath after all. Sphinx is damn fast already. So, I am not sure that .5 seconds vs. .32 seconds is really a huge win. I have dropped the previous release in to my dev server and it was 100% compatible with what I needed with the exception of bug #14752 which this version fixes. -- Brian Moon Senior Web Engineer ------------------------------ When you care enough to spend the very least. http://dealnews.com/