I was talking to someone recently about how searchcode.com works with regards to its bloom filter. The question came up about why it stores the index in memory and not on disk considering how fast disks are these days. Now the answer is firstly performance, but the second is that writing all the code to store the index on disk is a lot of work and I didn’t feel like working on it. However I was curious… since I have been using SQLite a lot recently, how about storing the bloom filter on d...
