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

Well, I am now waiting on the approval of the set of dictionaries on the 
LO Extension Center.

I made on listing with 11 externally hosted files to choose from.

                                                             word list 
sizes
American English        98,000+    217,000+    390,000+    638,000+
British English             98,000+    217,000+    390,000+    638,000+
Canadian English                         217,000+    390,000+    638,000+

Hopefully there will be an approval soon.

Now I can go and start working on some other things on my to-do list, 
like rebuild an old IBM Server, repair a Compaq Presario, find a 
inexpensive desktop and monitor for a friend 4 floor below me, etc., 
etc..  Plus I have several books to read, or finish reading, in the next 
few weeks [1000+/- pages each].  Just this morning, I added taking 
photos for a collage to the list of things needed to be done this 
month.  Who said "retired" life was going to be a life of rest and 
relaxation?  Not me.
.
On 11/10/2011 08:50 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> On the types of machines you sometimes use a performance hit would be very noticeable.  So, if 
> there is no hit then the longer lists make a lot of sense.  The 102k difference is surely not a 
> huge worry to anyone these days?  I had assumed that with a list twice as long the spell check 
> might take about twice as long too.  It's good to hear i was so wrong :)
>
> Many thanks for your hard work at all of this.  I'm sure a lot of people appreiate the results :)
> Thanks and regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Tue, 8/11/11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com>  wrote:
>
> From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] 98, 000+ word list British dictionary, hyphen, thesaurus dictionary
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Tuesday, 8 November, 2011, 13:43
>
>
> 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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