Definr: Incredibly fast dictionary

#1

Post by charzom » Sun, Nov 25, 2007, 7:12 PM UTC

Re: Definr: Incredibly fast dictionary

#2

Post by uuilly » Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 3:16 AM UTC

I've been using this one. Easier to type definr though.

#3

Post by edw519 » Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 3:16 AM UTC

Making a round trip with each letter typed? Impressive. Who needs a desktop app?

#4

Post by henning » Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 4:09 AM UTC

This cries out to be implemented with Berkeley DB, which is simply much faster than relational databases.

#5

Post by omouse » Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 4:36 AM UTC

henning wrote: post #4

This cries out to be implemented with Berkeley DB, which is simply much faster than relational databases.

I had completely forgotten about BDB, thanks for the reminder!

#6

Post by zach » Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 6:31 AM UTC

Sweet. However, the one word I happened to pick for a test (don't know why) was "spork" -- doh.

#7

Post by void_star » Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 7:02 AM UTC

How is this a startup? Auto-complete is NOT hard: it's a trie.

#8

Post by corentin » Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 8:01 AM UTC

henning wrote: post #4

This cries out to be implemented with Berkeley DB, which is simply much faster than relational databases.

I'm not sure it's useful either. Why not just use a dedicated data structure (such as a radix tree dictionary)?

#9

Post by dfranke » Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 8:35 AM UTC

void_star wrote: post #7

How is this a startup? Auto-complete is NOT hard: it's a trie.

I see no indication that it's intended to be one.

#10

Post by pageman » Mon, Nov 26, 2007, 10:10 AM UTC

I tried "triumphalism" on the first try. Not yet there :)