[Snowball-discuss] memory use in java version

Richard Boulton richard at lemurconsulting.com
Fri Nov 16 09:09:55 GMT 2007


Mike Wertheim wrote:
> I'd like to find out how much memory a SnowballProgram object keeps
> around between invocations of the "stem" method.  If that's too
> general of a question, then I'd like to know how much memory an
> englishStemmer keeps in memory after having calculated the stems for
> 1000 different words.  (Does the SnowballProgram keep an internal
> cache of already-stemmed words?)

I can't really help with how much memory it uses - but there is no 
internal cache at all in the snowball code.

-- 
Richard



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