[rucksack-devel] rucksack performance

[Arthur Lemmens]

Cyrus Harmon wrote:

> I guess performance is the only issue I can think of. Yes, you have
> to pay the cost of indexing either way, but, at least in many
> systems, it can be faster to do a bunch of "inserts" and then index
> the table, using rdbms-speak. It's not so much an issue of debugging
> performance problems, as working around the performance bottleneck of
> inserting into an index. I guess in an ideal world we wouldn't need
> to disable indexing during a bulk creation phase.

I don't see why that would be any faster in Rucksack.  As far as I can
see you just move the indexing work to a later stage, but I don't think
you optimize it.  But maybe I'm missing something.

Arthur