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...process. On the topic of performance, it has recently been brought to my attention that some people are aware of Ferret but avoid it because they think it is slow. Just to put that myth to rest, here are the outputs for a simple benchmark, indexing the reuters corpus available at: http://www.daviddlewis.com/resources/testcollections/reuters21578/ First Apache Lucene. (Yes Java users, as you can see, I did warm up the JVM (with 6 repetitions of the test) and I used the options -server -Xmx500M -XX:CompileThreshold=100 so this is a fair test). --------------------------------------------------- 1...