Re: [Aspell-user] Reg. performance of suggestions

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Ananda Kumar C wrote:

> We are trying to use aspell as the spell checker for our application and 
> seeing a delay in getting the suggestions for a misspelled word to the 
> tune of around 64 millisecs on an average. Checking a word for correct 
> spelling takes only a few microsecs, which is very good. We could also 
> get away with getting the best suggestion or the best 5 suggestions from 
> the suggestion list. Is there a way to limit aspell (by tweaking the 
> code, if need may be) to return only the best suggestion or the best 5 
> suggestions, so that the time taken for getting the list of suggestions 
> comes down?

Decreasing the number of suggestions will not decrees the overall time it 
takes to get them.

The config option "sug-mode" can be used to improve suggestion speed.  
"ultra" is the fasted mode.

Also, as a general rule, Aspell suggestion speed improves over time.  Thus 
I suggestion you upgrade to the latest version of Aspell 0.60.3, as that 
version made some significant improvements is suggestion time.

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