Re: [aspell-user] Aspell is running very slow on my box.

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Daniel Crown wrote:

> I'm using aspell on my linux box and I'm having a very serious
> performance problem, aspell is taking more than 80 seconds to process a
> file with 5,700 characters.
>
> For instance if I execute:
>
> $ date +%s ; cat myfile.txt | aspell -a > /dev/null ; date +%s
> 1005681475
> 1005681557
>
> The difference is 82 seconds. Also, if I execute aspell with the --time
> option I get suggestion times near the second: 'Suggestion Time: 0.69'

Yes that is correct Aspell does take a while to come up with suggestions.
However when using Aspell for interactive spell checking it is generally
not a major problem.

What exactly do you want to use Aspell for?