TOtosh·Nov 30, 2023Submission
3 points · Open discussionBurntSushi
nakala
Rust2023–2023
BurntSushi / nakala
nakala
A low level embedded information retrieval system.
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
46GitHub stars
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What it is
A low level embedded information retrieval system.
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Observed mentions: 2023-11-30 16:26:07 UTC to 2023-11-30 21:26:20 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Nov 30, 16:00 | 2023-11-30 16:00:00 UTC | 2023-11-30 17:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 30, 17:00 | 2023-11-30 17:00:00 UTC | 2023-11-30 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30, 18:00 | 2023-11-30 18:00:00 UTC | 2023-11-30 19:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30, 19:00 | 2023-11-30 19:00:00 UTC | 2023-11-30 20:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30, 20:00 | 2023-11-30 20:00:00 UTC | 2023-11-30 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30, 21:00 | 2023-11-30 21:00:00 UTC | 2023-11-30 22:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesAuthor of ripgrep here.
I'm not sure if this is ever going to happen. I did make some progress in the initial design here (warning, very long): https://github.com/BurntSushi/nakala/blob/15d55b742c07a26944...
But... I was not extremely confident in my design, and proving it out will likely take at least months of continuous work. I don't quite have that kind of time at the moment, and I ended up diverting to work on Rust's regex crate rewrite. My biggest question was whether I should double down on memory maps or not. There is a lot of conflicting advice and practice.
Perhaps I'll revisit this idea some day, but probably not any time soon unfortunately.
In RFC: Add ngram indexing support to ripgrep (2020)