LWT is painfully slow

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MorkTheFiddle
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Re: LWT is painfully slow

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sat Jul 22, 2017 7:35 pm

There is a marginal case for keeping all texts active. In LWT, making all texts active lets the user find out the frequency of use for a term.
At the very bottom of the form for editing terms are listed "Sentences in active texts with X", if any. For example, in my French texts, the term 'furtive' appears in 11 sentences. These instances occur in only 15 texts. Loading more texts would only slow down the functionality of the app, but I can't get a complete count without unarchiving texts.
Frequency tells me how much effort I want to spend learning the word. For French, this is not critical, but for Ancient Greek, it can be. A word that appears only once or twice in the whole Ancient Greek corpus is not worth special effort, in most cases, for me, at any rate.
But Ancient Greek seemingly slows down LWT even more than languages with Roman characters, so unarchiving all of the texts is not workable.
Luckily, if anyone has a use for the frequencies, Laurence Anthony's freeware AntConc.exe (http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/) can also list frequencies of a term if the app is fed text files of all the texts in question.
That said, changing from LWT to another fork does not seem useful to me at this time.
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