[sugar] New multilingual dictionary activity

[Ivan Krstić]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:21 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> That works for a small group tweaking a large database.

How is that not appropriate for each user's personal dictionary?

> For any (initial) corpus, at some point user modifications are  
> significant.

Even 500 words out of, say, fifty thousand is not very significant  
when it comes to making the choice about backend implementation.

> Consider many users revising a small database.  Do they have to share
> updated corpora and "recent modifications" separately, as database and
> overlay files?

That strikes me as fairly much optimal, yes. Is there a problem with it?

> For speed, why not have a constant database that is checked on reads,
> and perform slower queries on "edit" / "update cached term" / "update
> all"?


I don't know what this paragraph means.

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