Author: Andrei Fortuna
Date: 19:44:11 03/06/02
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Hi Roy !
On March 06, 2002 at 15:44:40, Roy Eassa wrote:
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>I wonder how many messages CCC has had in the 14+ months since 1/1/2001. Still
>might be enough to choke a poorly-written app.
There are over 200,000 messages posted since the begining of CCC (late 1997).
I wrote my offline CCC browser (aka the Ultimate CCC Browser) especially with
memory constraints and number of messages in mind (and of course instant
searches !) - last time I tested it was with about 140,000 messages. After that
I wrote the online search engine using almost the same code ported to linux. My
biggest problem with the offline browser was that too many messages were added
to the unsorted folder - I tried to ease this problem by using filters (based on
keywords messages were moved to different folders automatically) and it
partially helped. Later I started re-writing the offline browser with two
improvements in mind : a basic compressed file system (so messages could also be
deleted from the archive and also take less space) and folders organized on
pages (i.e. maximum 100 or so messages per page). I was halfway through
rewriting (I had the file system code written from scratch and tested and it was
fun doing it) when I ported the online search engine - and I realized then that
this offline search engine (basically the search engine running locally on a
windows machine) was all that I needed for my chess programming searches, if I
could find an interesting thread I could bookmark it in my browser and so forth.
>Wasn't there a third tool for reading archived CCC messages off-line, or am I
>just remembering incorrectly?
There are 4 offline CCC browsers I could find, see
http://www.it.ro/~storm/ccc/index.cfm
Cheers,
Andrei
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