Re: WIP: preloading of ispell dictionary

Takahiro Itagaki wrote:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> I wrote some small patch, that allow preloading of selected ispell
>> dictionary. It solve the problem with slow tsearch initialisation with
>> some language configuration.
>>
>> I afraid so this module doesn't help on MS Windows.
>
> I think it should work on all platforms if we include it into the core.

It will work, as in it will compile and run. It just won't be any
faster. I think that's enough, otherwise you could argue that we
shouldn't have preload_shared_libraries option at all because it won't
help on Windows.

> The fundamental issue seems to be in the slow initialization of
> dictionaries. If so, how about adding a pre-complile tool to convert
> a dictionary into a binary file, and each backend simply mmap it?

Yeah, that would be better.

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