Morpheme Stripping and Index Build

[wdavies]

Hi,

I just tried switching on Morpheme Stripping (aka Stemming), by setting minwordlen to 5.

Anyway, it seems to cause a BIG performance hit (order of magnitude). My guess is that it is because the index wasn't built with this set?

Is there a way to do this ? Should I just set minwordlen to the same in the indexing script?

Cheers,
Winton

[John]

The minwordlen setting does not affect the index build process. Were you testing it with words with a lot of derivatives, or some very common ones? For most words there are not that many derivatives to see that kind of performance impact.