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Hi List, I''ve took some time and made some tests on the performance of java-lucene, hyperestraier and ferret as Dave encourages the community of ferret to do so. Quite intersting numbers. Ferret indeed deserves to be called a high-performance port!! It''s MyFirstBenchmark ( http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/wiki/MyFirstBenchmark ) so please don''t be too cruel on critizing the method. It''s just a hack and it''s flawed - as every other benchmark. But it provides some numbers and regardlass how flawed it is, one thing remains true: All of...

I''m getting a locale not set error. Does anyone know how I should set my locale in my rails environment so that ferret knows what to do? Why isn''t this a problem in the ruby version of ferret? Thanks, Carl

I''m building a new index from scratch based on a number of documents stored in a database loaded using my Rails env (using Ruby Ferret 0.9x (installed today with Gem) on Windows). At first everything goes nice but after a number of documents it starts to go slower and slower until it grinds to a halt (at least feels like it). Am I doing something wrong? Is there some way to work