I want to know that why there is a word limitation on Javascript platform?

[coldbby]

Hi,

Please tell me, why there is 500,000 words limitation?

And I have a question, too. Adobe Robohelp's search engine can indexing millions of words with using Javascript. So, why Zoom can't?


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coldbby

[wrensoft]

There is a difference between total words and unique words.

There is no Zoom limit on total words in Javascript.

There is a 500,000 Unique words for Javascript. The performance of Javascript is reallly poor (http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/benchmarks.html) compared to other scripting languages, and search times start to blow out to minutes with indexes this large. There also starts to be failures in some browsers, including scripts being killed for running too long and out of memory errors.

But 500,000 unique words is a lot, there are only 50,000 unique words in common use in the English language.