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Dasher
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When the training_english_GB.txt file gets REALLY big, Dasher takes a LONG time to start. #155

Open smoothsaling opened 6 years ago

smoothsaling commented 6 years ago

One thing I have noticed is that when the training_english_GB.txt gets really big, Dasher can take 30-40 seconds to start which feels like forever when someone is waiting for an answer to their question. I have had people walk away thinking I was ignoring them. My work-around is opening the training file and deleting the 1st half of the text. It probably takes me a couple of years for the file to get that big (5MB or 5 million characters counting spaces) so deleting the 1st half of the training file doesn't affect my word prediction and makes start up in the 10-15 second range.

It is no big problem to occasionally reduce the size of my training file but other users might not be so adept. If there were another way to solve this issue, it would be helpful. Thank you.