On 8/3/06, Julien Lemoine speedblue@happycoders.org wrote:
The algorithm uses very few cpu power. Imagine for example that all the data needed are in memory, the compiled automaton could be obtained in 1 minutes.
Okay, that's good. But what I meant was, how much CPU power (and other resources) will the suggestion feature eat on a day-to-day basis? I start typing "Metasyntactic variable" into the search box, it helpfully provides some suggestions based on its index — how much resources did that just use? When thousands of people are doing it every minute, how much will that slow down the servers compared to the normal load of page views and edits and so on?