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• From: "Edward C. Zimmermann" <edz@b...>
• To: cowan@l...
• Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 19:14:53 +0200 (MET DST)

> 
> Marcelo Cantos wrote:
> 
> > [E]fficient phrase indexes should roughly double our current index
> > size.
> 
> Why so big?  A phrase index should be the same as a word index
> with only a 4-byte word serial number in addition.
Depends upon the design of the index, e.g. the basic S/R algorithms
AND if the index is designed to be complete (e.g. does not require
the original source) or not. This covers the gambit, depending upon
the algorithms, from no increase in index size to a significant increase.

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