This is the third entry of the series about implementing full-text search indexes in Pharo. The second entry is Implementing Indexes – Who uses all my memory, where we analysed the first version and the problems it has. You can start reading from this post, but there are things that we have presented in the previousContinue reading “Implementing Indexes – Compressing the Trie”
Category Archives: data structures
Transcript: the misunderstood global
In this blog post, I will discuss why using Transcript can be really badly used. I will present that with some simple care we can develop modular solutions that are flexible and can take advantages of using Transcript without the inconvenients. As a general remark, if you want to log better use a real systemContinue reading “Transcript: the misunderstood global”
[Pharo features] Advanced run-time reflection
In this series of blog-posts, we are explaining in more detail the Pharo features described in https://pharo.org/features. The source code describes programs statically, but this perspective is insufficient if you want to fully understand the behavior of the computer system. The source code can, for example, describe a complex graph of data objects, although its concreteContinue reading “[Pharo features] Advanced run-time reflection”
About Blocks: Basics 101
This blog post is a first and short of a series where we will explore block-closures. This post will cover basic elements while the other will start to go over more semantical aspects using simple examples. This blog post is extracted from “Deep Into Pharo” and a new book under writing that will revisit chosenContinue reading “About Blocks: Basics 101”
Implementing Indexes – Who uses all my memory
This is the second entry of the series about implementing full-text search indexes in Pharo. The first entry is Implementing Indexes – A Simple Index. You can start reading from this post, but there are things that we have presented in the previous one. For example, how to install the Trie implementation. In the first entry,Continue reading “Implementing Indexes – Who uses all my memory”
Implementing Indexes – A Simple Index
In Pharo, we have an excellent tool to query, navigate and discover classes and methods in the system. The tool is Spotter, this tool allows us to search the image for different elements: Classes Methods Menu entries Help topics and many more… To access to it is as easy as doing Shift + Enter, SpotterContinue reading “Implementing Indexes – A Simple Index”
