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→Elasticsearch: Note some more features ES makes possible/easy.
(→Challenge: Fast Regex Matching: Linked to my half-completed work on regex trigram extraction.) |
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* Sparse attribute storage, which could come in handy for supporting new languages | * Sparse attribute storage, which could come in handy for supporting new languages | ||
* Extreme flexibility of indexing: index whatever chars we want, index them any number of ways (case-sensitive or not), and entirely too much more | * Extreme flexibility of indexing: index whatever chars we want, index them any number of ways (case-sensitive or not), and entirely too much more | ||
* Makes showing (syntax-colored) context around search results feasible—just keep the highlight offsets in the line doc. | |||
* Efficient counting of the total (not just returned) results, a common request | |||
* Facilitates generic-identifier searching, an MXR parity feature. (Either merge all the identifiers into a field on each line, or search them the function/ref/etc. fields separately.) | |||
Nice to have: | Nice to have: | ||