Something that always confuses me is that Java has so many different idioms for writing and reading from files. You have FileWriter/FileReader, FileInputStream, and BufferedWriters and Readers.. and I'm sure I've missed out a few (like Properties and so forth).
So, instead of spending time figuring out that the proper call (in most instances) is BufferedWriter wraps a FileWriter wraps a String which is a filename, I'm just going to write it down somewhere permanent.. Maybe a tattoo is in order ? :)
Hmm, indexing is kind of sort of done. Lucene is pretty darn fast, whew. My unofficial and informally obtained statistics say that 3GB of text (in 3k files) takes around 7-8 minutes to index. I should, ideally, find some spare time to install PLucene and see how well it does, in the pure index-speed arena.
I can now finally get on with the actual research. The base system is almost done.
