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Robert Muir updated LUCENE-2780: -------------------------------- Fix Version/s: (was: 3.1) > optimize spantermquery > ---------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-2780 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2780 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Search > Reporter: Robert Muir > Fix For: 4.0 > > Attachments: LUCENE-2780.patch > > > Looking at > http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/document/c2c6f660ddde4f7f/dismaxqparserplugin_and_tokenization > , > I saw a user building DisjunctionMaxQuery / BooleanQuery with SpanTermQuerys. > I wonder if users know that doing this is much slower than just using > TermQuery? > I agree it makes little sense to use SpanTermQuery if you arent going to use > it inside a SpanNear etc, > but on the other hand, I think its a little non-intuitive that it wouldnt be > just as fast in a case like this. > I could see this complicating queryparsing etc for users that want to > sometimes use positions etc. > SpanTermQuery is the same as TermQuery, except tf is computed as (#of spans * > sloppyFreq(spanLength) > For this case, #ofspans = tf and spanLength for a single term is always 1. > Maybe we should optimize SpanTermQuery to return TermScorer, with just this > special tf computation. > This would avoid reading positions for anyone that does this. -- 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