Great job on the perl port of Lucene. I've used the java implementation extensively, and I was wondering if there is any sense in which the Plucene has thread-safe IndexSearchers (as does the Lucene). I'm using Plucene in a cgi framework, and a large part of the execution time is taken up by instantation of the IndexSearcher from a file-based index directory (which is up to 200Mb in my application). I was hoping to use mod_perl or SpeedyCGI to persist IndexReader's across requests, but this will only cause problems if the searchers aren't threadsafe. I suspect they are not, but thought to ask ..... regards, --David Goodstein