Why quicksearch sucks

Bradley Baetz bbaetz at student.usyd.edu.au
Sat Nov 16 11:43:19 UTC 2002


On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 09:43:26AM +0000, Gervase Markham wrote:
> >Well, the fact that bmo is 40-50 times as slow as myk's test machine
> >points to anohter oppertunity for improvment :)
> 
> mozilla.org staff are working on getting a new machine - and I think 
> there's a realisation inside Netscape that it's an urgent requirement. 
> But we can't commit to a timescale.

mod_perl will help, too, since we won't be reparsing all these perl
files for every single request.

> 
> >I thik we do want the backend fix, epscially since custom fields is
> >going to make this basically a requirement.
> 
> I completely agree that this is the right thing to do. Are you sticking 
> your hand in the air? You are probably the best person to do it, if you 
> have time.
> 

I'll play with this. Probably won't have time tomorrow, though.

> Gerv

Bradley



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