[Libreoffice] Should the Thesaurus/mythes use a precomputed index (installer file size)

[Caolán McNamara]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 15:17 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 21:45 +1000, Steve Butler wrote:
> > If the thesaurus is only loaded when the user pops it up, then
> > couldn't mythes be taught to generate its own in-memory index
> > from the dictionary and not bother with an index file at all?
> 
> 	Right. I think we could easily serialize a small skip-list to disk too
> - if we simply store ~8 or ~32 or so indexes into the data - we can
> parse only a fraction of it, and pop that in our home directory. We
> could also drop the MyThes code too as a depedency to manage.
> 
> 	The code using it is in:
> 
> 	lingucomponent/source/thesaurus/libnth/nthesimp.cxx
> 
> > BTW, if I did that I'd probably do some major surgery on mythes and
> > just use STL because it basically is doing C style memory management
> > and processing and I think I would screw it up if I started messing
> > with it.  The only problem with simplifying it with STL constructs is
> > that I would want to change the interface (string vs char *), maybe
> > use STL vectors for the list of synonyms, etc.
> 
> 	Heh; sure.
> 
> > By this stage it's not looking much like mythes anymore ...

FWIW, I'm sure Nemeth would be interested if you e.g. wanted to create a
reimpl of mythes that was faster than the original and perhaps simply
designate the optimized version the new "mythes" version with an API/ABI
change :-)

C.