It should be faster now! Hopefully more accurate as well!
We've been wanting to fix the forum search up for a while now, and the SQL queries for it were about 30% of the database's CPU time. But no longer are we slave to the evils of MySQL fulltext searching, and the evils of MyISAM that it brings. Begone foul searching tables! Welcome to the tyranny of XtraDB [http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtradb/], and tremble before the alliance of the Sphinx with the hamster army.
I still have some tweaks to make, but it should be much better already.
We've been wanting to fix the forum search up for a while now, and the SQL queries for it were about 30% of the database's CPU time. But no longer are we slave to the evils of MySQL fulltext searching, and the evils of MyISAM that it brings. Begone foul searching tables! Welcome to the tyranny of XtraDB [http://www.percona.com/software/percona-xtradb/], and tremble before the alliance of the Sphinx with the hamster army.
I still have some tweaks to make, but it should be much better already.