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Uwe Schindler commented on LUCENE-3054:
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Maybe we leave our QS as is (except, changing the 40 to be dynamic
depending on input length), noting that you should not use it if your
comparator does not break ties, and even if it does there are still
risks because of potentially bad pivot selection?
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That looks like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introsort

We only need a good recursion depth where to switch!

> SorterTemplate.quickSort stack overflows on broken comparators that produce 
> only few disticnt values in large arrays
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-3054
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3054
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Task
>    Affects Versions: 3.1
>            Reporter: Robert Muir
>            Assignee: Uwe Schindler
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 3.1.1, 3.2, 4.0
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-3054-stackoverflow.patch, LUCENE-3054.patch, 
> LUCENE-3054.patch, LUCENE-3054.patch, LUCENE-3054.patch, LUCENE-3054.patch, 
> LUCENE-3054.patch
>
>
> Looking at Otis's sort problem on the mailing list, he said:
> {noformat}
> * looked for other places where this call is made - found it in
> MultiPhraseQuery$MultiPhraseWeight and changed that call from
> ArrayUtil.quickSort to ArrayUtil.mergeSort
> * now we no longer see SorterTemplate.quickSort in deep recursion when we do a
> thread dump
> {noformat}
> I thought this was interesting because PostingsAndFreq's comparator
> looks like it needs a tiebreaker.
> I think in our sorts we should add some asserts to try to catch some of these 
> broken comparators.

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