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

[Daniel Crown]

I want to use aspell with SQWebMail that executes it through a pipe
using the -a argument.
The problem that I'm having is that when I check the spelling of texts
over 6k the browser times out because aspell in the background is taking
too much time to process the file.

Also, a friend gave me access to his Redhat 7.2 that comes with a binary
version of aspell, and it had the same speed problems. He has a Pentium
IV 1.5Ghz 512 MB of RAM and it took 3 minutes to process the
PCMCIA-HOWTO, while on my machine (that is a P3 550) it took 1 second
with ispell.

I've also tried writing a simple spell checker using the pspell API, and
it had the same speed problems.

Is it possible that you improve the suggestion time of aspell?   There
are several programs that call the old ispell through a pipe, and when
they are used on new OS that come with aspell the performance is
considerably decreased.

Thanks again for your time.


Daniel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Atkinson [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:47 AM
> To: Daniel Crown
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [aspell-user] Aspell is running very slow on my box.
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
>