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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:17:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tim Hughes <thughes@troglobyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Custom Algorithm (C/C++) ?
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We are looking to do a query of documents & abstracts from a legacy system,
then retrieve the docs for clustering & classification via Mahout. Expected
volume is something on the order of 2,000 - 3,000 documents.


Ted Dunning wrote:
> 
> Can you say more about your application?
> 
> Mahout is a very young project and is known to be sub-standard in a number
> of respects due to youth.  Depending on what you need, it might be
> excellent, or seriously deficient (at the moment).  The deficiencies will
> be
> addressed over time, but full disclosure now is important.
> 
> Depending on what you need, an on-line learning system like vowpal might
> be
> much better for you.
> 
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Tim Hughes <thughes@troglobyte.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> We're looking specifically at Mahout (on top of the other supporting
>> Apache
>> projects). One of the roadblocks to moving in that direction is the
>> concern
>> about Java performance. We could not go the Mahout direction if there was
>> no
>> way to use C/C++; since there is, we can bypass the "premature
>> optimization"
>> and run Mahout as designed, yet have the ability to fall back to custom C
>> code if the user's expectations are not met.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ted Dunning, CTO
> DeepDyve
> 
> 

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