Re: Performance and number of search results

2009-04-29 Thread Walter Underwood
Some part of the server-side work is linear in the number of hits. It has to look up field values for each one of those hits, and that is linear. At some level, you've got one lookup for each term in the query and one lookup for each hit. If you have a handful of terms and a 1000 hits, the time is

Re: Performance and number of search results

2009-04-29 Thread Michael Ludwig
Wouter Samaey schrieb: Can someone please comment on the performance impact of the number of search results? Is there a big difference between querying for 1 result, 10, 20 or even 100 ? Probably not, but YMMV, as the question is very general. Consider that for fast queries the HTTP round tri