Re: [Aspell-user] it and de spell check is very slow

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Gitanjali Bhatia wrote:

> I am noticing a lot of difference in speed between the en_US and the Italian
> and german spell check. The text that would take about 10 secs for the en_US
> dictionary takes about 37secs for Italian. Is there a reason why this is the
> case? What can I do to make it faster? Unfortunately, the browser times out
> when I try spell checking Italian and german text almost all the time.  I am
> using the C++ API of aspell for spell checking which I believe is faster
> than the -a pipe mode.

Try setting the "sug-mode" option to "ultra" (or maybe "fast").

Also, the difference in performance between the C++ API and the pipe mode 
is negligible when looking for suggestions.