Re: Multi-user aspell usage.

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Kevin Tew wrote:

> I have a server app that is used concurrently by several users.
> I plan on instanciating a speller for each user, with their personal
> preferences.
>
> I'm hoping that that all the instanciated spellers will use the same
> read-only master lang dictionary.
> Is this the case?
>
> eg.
> If 5 userers all use the en_US lang dictionary will I get 5 loaded
> copies of the dictionary or hopefully just one?

With Aspell 0.50 you tecnically get 5 loaded copies, however if Aspell was
able to use mmap they should all be using the same memory.  With Aspell
0.60 there is only one copy.