Not knowing what's under the hood, some things to consider if not yet implemented:
  • making the search AND, I've actually found it quite frustrating that it is OR. Or allow logic, I am not sure how this affects search time, but it should result in a smaller recordset to handle, and a smaller page to return.
  • forbid searching for perl keywords (operators, functions...) that are not ANDed with something, shortcircuit to Simple Search.
  • likewise rule out badwords (common words), at least not when ANDed with something else.
  • paginating the results. Bandwidth in bursts, and and a good database with LIMIT ought to stop once it reaches the limit. I imagine subsequent pages would need to be told the node ID whence to search, to contintue with the performance boost?

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    In reply to Re: Bring Back the Old Supersearch by belg4mit
    in thread Bring Back the Old Supersearch by dru145

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