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Earwin Burrfoot commented on LUCENE-2843: ----------------------------------------- And we're nearing a day when we keep the whole term dictionary in memory (as Sphinx does for instance). At that point a gazillion of term lookup-related hacks (like lookup cache) become obsolete :) Term dictionary itself can also be memory-mapped after this, instead of being "read" and "built" from disk, which makes new segment opening near-instantaneous. > Add variable-gap terms index impl. > ---------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-2843 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2843 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Index > Reporter: Michael McCandless > Assignee: Michael McCandless > Fix For: 4.0 > > Attachments: LUCENE-2843.patch, LUCENE-2843.patch > > > PrefixCodedTermsReader/Writer (used by all "real" core codecs) already > supports pluggable terms index impls. > The only impl we have now is FixedGapTermsIndexReader/Writer, which > picks every Nth (default 32) term and holds it in efficient packed > int/byte arrays in RAM. This is already an enormous improvement (RAM > reduction, init time) over 3.x. > This patch adds another impl, VariableGapTermsIndexReader/Writer, > which lets you specify an arbitrary IndexTermSelector to pick which > terms are indexed, and then uses an FST to hold the indexed terms. > This is typically even more memory efficient than packed int/byte > arrays, though, it does not support ord() so it's not quite a fair > comparison. > I had to relax the terms index plugin api for > PrefixCodedTermsReader/Writer to not assume that the terms index impl > supports ord. > I also did some cleanup of the FST/FSTEnum APIs and impls, and broke > out separate seekCeil and seekFloor in FSTEnum. Eg we need seekFloor > when the FST is used as a terms index but seekCeil when it's holding > all terms in the index (ie which SimpleText uses FSTs for). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org