Re: beagle implementation in C

[Peter Bruhn Andersen <bruhn andersen webspeed dk>]

Well, to me that is just as bad as it gets. I left C a long time ago and 
don't want to go back that road again. Your decision will certainly keep 
me away from Beagle now.
It might be that I'm a minority in hoping that you would stick with Mono 
but nevertheless I'll ask you to reconsider.

Regards,
Peter


Debajyoti Bera wrote:
> Hey all,
> 	Recently there has been an increase of beagle memory related and crash bugs. 
> It is increasingly getting difficult to fix such bugs so I (we?) have decided 
> to re-implement beagle in C. That will allow us to do precise memory 
> allocation and de-allocation leading to better memory behaviour. Also, we 
> will be able to debug using good old gdb.
> 	Implementing the whole of beagle in C will be extremely tedious. Fortunately, 
> there exists a C port of lucene (clucene, IIRC) that we can make use of. As 
> of now, I will go ahead and implement the core parts. Depending on how it 
> goes, the filters and backends will be implemented in C or some scripting 
> language (not decided between python and ruby).
> 	I plan to have a working implemenation at 
> svn.gnome.org/svn/beagle/trunk/cbeagle by 06/31/07. Watch the space. I will 
> probably also blog about it (if possible with figures comparing regular and 
> c-beagle).
> 	This will cut down my time with the regular beagle but I will be checking the 
> bugs and mails. It will be a lot of work (and its a bit late for GSoC) so a 
> any volunteers will be very helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> - dBera
>
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