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...ps://www.recoll.org/pages/idxthreads/threadingRecoll.html#_the_xapian_bottleneck_and_how_it_was_resolved_thanks_to_xapian Nice write-up! It'd be helpful to note the Xapian version you're using for such benchmarking as the results are likely to evolve over time. Also are you using Xapian::DBCOMPACT_MULTIPASS? The linked page doesn't seem to say. In theory it should be faster when merging many databases, but Tom Mortimer reported he found it slower. That was a long time ago, but I've never managed to get around to profiling to see what was going on or if it was even still the case (probably m...

Hi, I have been playing at converting the index update stage of the Recoll indexer to use multiple temporary indexes and a final merge. This yields an improvement factor of almost 3 (on my quad-core CPU), for the total indexing time for "easy" files like HTML pages. This is nice (!) and I wanted to share my admiration for the "compact()" method. If someone is interested in a