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Fast Sphinx indexing with foxy fixtures

Posted by: Matthew Bass on 11/19/2008

Can Sphinx and foxy fixtures place nicely together? Due to the way Sphinx indexing works, foxy fixtures will often slow down the indexing process drastically. This article explains how to overcome this limitation.


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About Matthew Bass

Matthew Bass is an independent software developer, entrepreneur, speaker, and writer. He has over ten years of experience across a diverse set of technologies and has worked at places like SAS Institute, the world's largest privately held software company. An agilist from the very beginning, he continues evangelizing and experimenting with pair programming, test-first and behavior-driven development, and continuous integration. Matthew has spoken at several regional and national software conferences and regularly writes for publications like InfoQ.