Re: ispell hashes

Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Thu, 06 May 1999 21:02:14 -0700


At 08:29 PM 5/6/99 -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote:
>Ok, in that case, I'm going to continue what I'm doing to get SuSE's hash
>file... Does it look like abisource might abandon ispell or just build the
>custom dictionary on top of ispell's?

For now, we're likely to keep using ispell dictionaries for the main
dictionaries. They're big, they already exist, they're pretty efficient,
and they mostly work -- especially with all your improvements. :-)

In contrast, people's personal/custom dictionaries are usually several
orders of magnitude smaller, so we can store them in a much simpler format
(for example, one word per line of an alpha-sorted plain text file) which we
can use for fallback checks if the ispell lookup fails.

Paul

PS: Of course, the day that all those tantalizing aspell algorithms get
reimplemented without those pesky templates, we'll be *sorely* tempted to
play around with the idea of switching over our core dictionaries to that
format.



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