Perl API to Lucene

[Thomas Busch]

Hi Leon,

> Ooohh, I thought you were talking about CLucene. I've been playing
> with Search::Xapian recently, which appears to just work (and allows
> updating the index while reading, something Plucene couldn't do). Ah
> well, it's time to throw some documents into all these search engines
> and stop guessing about performance ;-)

While you are speaking about it do you have any performance benchmarks
for Xapian ? Also do you know if sorting/ranking is customizable ? 

Thomas.