I’m continuing work on a piece of software to help me translate from ancient Greek to English. One problem has been the time taken before it finishes starting. When it takes 10-20 seconds on startup, just to load the various dictionaries, you quickly weary of it. If you want to look up two words, you find it very annoying. Since I am running it repeatedly, to test things, I’ve got very weary of it.
I’ve now got the load time down to a couple of seconds. This is still rather longer than I like, but obviously a lot better. The downside of this is that it takes marginally longer to parse each word. I tend to work with only a few hundred words at a time, so this is not too onerous. The processing time for my test text (of 386 words) is about a second, which is acceptable if not wonderful.
sounds wonderful Roger, keep up the good work.
Well, I don’t know who will use it. But I certainly will. It should be ideal to work on Isidore of Pelusium’s letters.