Re: [libreoffice-users] 98, 000+ word list British dictionary, hyphen, thesaurus dictionary

I have not seen any "performance hits" with my use of either the 98K or 
the 217K word list dictionaries.  The actual time would difference would 
be really small.  I have not tried using a 390K or 638K word lists 
though.  For a real large document that I used for testing sometimes, 
you should not see any difference for spell checker lookup.

I do not know what type of searches are used in LO to search the word 
lists for the word lookup, but for the old 80286 systems that I use to 
do this type of programming with  these 50K vs 638K list searches would 
take about a 1/10 of a second difference for the same 100,000 word 
document.  This was what I generally got for my word list searches back 
in the 80's with the programming samples I wrote.  The professor wanted 
a timer included in the search software so he could see how efficient 
your code was.  College is where I got interested in dictionary and word 
list searches and functions for spell checking.  To re-learn C++ after 
my second stroke, I write a program to create word lists from e-book 
text and compare them with the current lists to see what new words I 
could find.

The fact the the original .dic files had control codes after each word 
requires the system to do the work to do the conversions and then use 
those options in its searching.  So having lists that do not need those 
control codes may make spelling searched faster.




On 11/08/2011 03:13 AM, Mark Stanton wrote:
> I'm always interested in "the most comprehensive".
> Presumably there's a performance hit related to the size of
> dictionary?
>
> Mark Stanton
> One small step for mankind...


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