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--- devel:fulltextindex [2009-03-07 17:22] – typo efege
+++ devel:fulltextindex [2018-11-28 20:47] (current) – [i<word length>.idx] typo corrected torpedo
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 These files contain the real index by mapping words to the pages they occur on. The file also contains the frequency of the word on the given page, which is used for search ranking.
-The line numbers correspond to the ones in ''w<word length>.idx'', so the w and i indexes should aways have the same number of lines.
+The line numbers correspond to the ones in ''w<word length>.idx'', so the w and i indexes should always have the same number of lines.
 Each line contains ''//PID*<frequency>//'' pairs separated by colons.
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 This index is used to remove words from the index that are no longer on a changed or deleted page.
-The line number (starting from 0) is the **PID** form the ''page.idx''. Each line contains ''//<wordlength>*WID//'' pairs separated by colons.
+The line number (starting from 0) is the **PID** from the ''page.idx''. Each line contains ''//<wordlength>*WID//'' pairs separated by colons.
-This index currently needs a lot of memory and will probably be replaced by more efficient method later.
+As only one line of that index is read and written during an index update that index is quite efficient.
 ===== Indexing ======