While I wait on LianXiShuZi to be approved and continue developing another learning application, I thought I'd take some time to make some improvements to DianHua Dictionary. Today I experimented with limiting search results to exact matches to see what the performance difference might be. Most searches are at least twice as fast so this feature will make it into the next version of DianHua Dictionary. In cases where an exact search doesn't yield the desired results, you can activate the normal exhaustive search using the "More..." item at the end of the list of results.
Where this feature pays off the most is in searches for traditional or simplified characters. Instead of an exact match in that case, I allowed 2 character results to be displayed when only one character is included in the search term. The speed improvements are more dramatic than English and Pinyin searches, and the results are more useful.
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