[Mifluz-dev] Re: mifluz

[Geoff Hutchison]

Malcolm,

I'm not sure what the current status of mifluz is as I honestly have 
never really been an active developer of mifluz. From what I can tell, 
Loic has moved on to other work and has not been developing mifluz 
either. Perhaps he or someone else on the mifluz-dev list can give you 
more information.

On the other hand, the ht://Dig project is still active and is working, 
in part, on resyncing with the current mifluz and updating the String 
and word-parsing code to handle multi-byte strings. (I'm not entirely 
sure how well mifluz currently works in this regard since the shared 
String class in both projects seems to assume char == byte in places.)

If Loic or others in mifluz can give you some suggestions on areas 
needing work with mifluz, then I'm sure your help would be greatly 
appreciated. Otherwise, many of us in the ht://Dig project can offer 
suggestions that may help with the applications you mention.

--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/

On Saturday, February 16, 2002, at 09:14  AM, Malcolm Melville wrote:

> Geoff
>
> I have used miflux on and off over the past couple of years
> in an experimental way - looking at building news databases
> which are searchable within seconds of a story appearing on
> a wire. Currently I am in a state of change and am
> interested in knowing whether you guys are interested in
> any development effort on mifluz. I have about 10 years of
> C and C++ in the text database area behind me and another 8
> years working on market data and other business real time
> applications. Prior to that I worked on various AC power
> systems simulations and bit and bobs.
>
> Over the last 4 years, I have been looking at hardware
> speedups - compiling searches to hardware for execution
> using arrays of processors, and most recently FPGAs.
>
> I have enjoyed using miflux but always been slightly
> puzzled as to why it has never got to a version 1.0 and
> what criteria would be used to say it had arrived.
>
> While I am able, for a few months and probably more, would
> like to contrinute rather than use, if there is anything
> useful I can do.
>
> regards
> malcolm