IDEA: Text search engine tailored to a specific schema

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-04-17 04:26, Casey wrote:
> O.K.  This is just an idea that's been running through my head, so I
> figured someone here may be interested.
>
> Text search engines that I know of are meant to index unstructured data
> or apply a schema to data at runtime.  However, since D has the ability
> to do things at compile time, perhaps it would be an ideal solution for
> situations where a specific schema is used and much be searched on.
> Instead of generic data structures used to represent the data,
> specialized data structures could be created at compile time to allow
> for better indexing and performance.
>
> That's about as far as I got with it.  To me, it seemed interesting
> enough to share.

Sounds a bit like the regular expression module. If you provide the 
regular expression at compile time it will generate an engine specific 
for that regular expression.

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/Jacob Carlborg