• LIFTI v7: Eliminating Allocations with CharacterBuffer

    Nov 27, 2025 LIFTI Full Text Search C# Performance

    LIFTI is an open source full text index library for .NET - you can check it out on GitHub Performance has always been a core focus for LIFTI. For v7, I looked at the tokenization pipeline and found an opportunity to significantly reduce memory allocations. The solution? Replacing StringBuilder with a custom …


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  • LIFTI v7: Anchoring Queries to Field Boundaries

    Nov 25, 2025 LIFTI Full Text Search C#

    LIFTI is an open source full text index library for .NET - you can check it out on GitHub LIFTI v7 introduces anchor operators that let you constrain matches to the start or end of fields. This feature was requested for exact match scenarios - like finding records where a field contains exactly one specific value, or …


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  • LIFTI v7: The And-Not Operator

    Nov 23, 2025 LIFTI Full Text Search C#

    LIFTI is an open source full text index library for .NET - you can check it out on GitHub LIFTI v7 introduces a new query operator that’s been on my wishlist for a while: the And-Not operator (&!). This operator allows you to efficiently subtract one set of search results from another - perfect for those “find this …


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