… process all those hits specially for the case when I want the result to be top 200 sorted by date. For mysql fulltext that means that if each of the 10 common words produces 150k hits internally the mysql server… sphinx was way faster than mysqls own fulltext it still took 16 seconds for the “heavy” search) and that is why I…
Post: Sphinx search performance optimization: attribute-based filters
… in MySQL terms, Full text columns are always indexed and using the very powerful extended query syntax you can do search against… other hand are sort of like unindexed MySQL columns. They are the extra details you may want to filter by, which is usually… | | hits[0] | 287 | +—————+————+ 6 rows in set (0.00 sec) That looks much better and I can mix it with other search…

