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Jason Rutherglen commented on LUCENE-3003:
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bq. Ie Pulsing is good for terms that have only 1 or 2 docs

I thought the default is 16 docs?  If there are more then seek'ing to the 
postings should be negligible (in comparison to a larger aggregate index size 
when using CSF/DocValues, which'll consume more of the system IO cache)?

> Move UnInvertedField into Lucene core
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-3003
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3003
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Index
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>            Assignee: Michael McCandless
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.2, 4.0
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-3003.patch
>
>
> Solr's UnInvertedField lets you quickly lookup all terms ords for a
> given doc/field.
> Like, FieldCache, it inverts the index to produce this, and creates a
> RAM-resident data structure holding the bits; but, unlike FieldCache,
> it can handle multiple values per doc, and, it does not hold the term
> bytes in RAM.  Rather, it holds only term ords, and then uses
> TermsEnum to resolve ord -> term.
> This is great eg for faceting, where you want to use int ords for all
> of your counting, and then only at the end you need to resolve the
> "top N" ords to their text.
> I think this is a useful core functionality, and we should move most
> of it into Lucene's core.  It's a good complement to FieldCache.  For
> this first baby step, I just move it into core and refactor Solr's
> usage of it.
> After this, as separate issues, I think there are some things we could
> explore/improve:
>   * The first-pass that allocates lots of tiny byte[] looks like it
>     could be inefficient.  Maybe we could use the byte slices from the
>     indexer for this...
>   * We can improve the RAM efficiency of the TermIndex: if the codec
>     supports ords, and we are operating on one segment, we should just
>     use it.  If not, we can use a more RAM-efficient data structure,
>     eg an FST mapping to the ord.
>   * We may be able to improve on the main byte[] representation by
>     using packed ints instead of delta-vInt?
>   * Eventually we should fold this ability into docvalues, ie we'd
>     write the byte[] image at indexing time, and then loading would be
>     fast, instead of uninverting

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