fst VS artichoke

I'd point you towards BurntSushi's fst crate: https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst

The fst crate effectively relies on mmap for it to work right. The folks here suggesting you just use the heap might be right, but only if using the heap is actually plausible. If your dictionary is GBs big (an FST might be bigger than available memory), then copying it the heap first would be disastrous.

You'll love what we're working on if you're interested in the implementation of:- Tantivy- Meilisearch- Finite State Transducers

Here's an example of longest prefix matching using a FST which I based my approach on: https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst/pull/104/files

Finite State Transducers

As a result, I have a plan to implement a desktop version from then and I finished today with a beta version. The desktop is based on tauri, and the dictionary index algorithm is FST (it is an awesome index algorithm).

WordBueno’s data is currently derived from Wiktionary. The backend is using Rust’s warp with fst for indexing.

No you don't. I've written multiple programs that load things instantly off the file system via memory maps. See the fst crate[1], for example, which is designed to work with memory maps.

Rust "works badly with memory mapped files" doesn't mean, "Rust can't use memory mapped files." It means, "it is difficult to reconcile Rust's safety story with memory maps." ripgrep for example uses memory maps because they are faster sometimes, and its safety contract[2] is a bit strained. But it works.

[1] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst/

[2] - https://docs.rs/grep-searcher/0.1.7/grep_searcher/struct.Mma...

The java based ruby, removes the GIL, which provides us real multithreading.

Truffleruby is "A high performance implementation of the Ruby programming language, built on GraalVM." If you prefer there is even a rust based ruby https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke

again, IMO, the microbenchmark, doesn't matter. What matters is the problem domain, whole stack and the whole "speed", including development, deployment and etc, and for some domains, ruby is the best and fast choice.

Not to be pedantic but Ruby has webassembly support, still won't work on the BEAM.

https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke

Artichoke is a Ruby interpreter written in Rust.

The owner of this reserved crate is Ryan Lopopolo who seems to indeed work on artichoke

I believe it was written mainly for/within the context of artichoke, which is an implementation of Ruby written (mostly) in Rust. It's a neat project!