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Paul Elschot updated LUCENE-584:
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> Decouple Filter from BitSet
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-584
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-584
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Search
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.1
>            Reporter: Peter Schäfer
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: bench-diff.txt, bench-diff.txt, 
> Matcher-core20070725.patch, Matcher-default20070725.patch, 
> Matcher-ground20070725.patch, Some Matchers.zip
>
>
> {code}
> package org.apache.lucene.search;
> public abstract class Filter implements java.io.Serializable 
> {
>   public abstract AbstractBitSet bits(IndexReader reader) throws IOException;
> }
> public interface AbstractBitSet 
> {
>   public boolean get(int index);
> }
> {code}
> It would be useful if the method =Filter.bits()= returned an abstract 
> interface, instead of =java.util.BitSet=.
> Use case: there is a very large index, and, depending on the user's 
> privileges, only a small portion of the index is actually visible.
> Sparsely populated =java.util.BitSet=s are not efficient and waste lots of 
> memory. It would be desirable to have an alternative BitSet implementation 
> with smaller memory footprint.
> Though it _is_ possibly to derive classes from =java.util.BitSet=, it was 
> obviously not designed for that purpose.
> That's why I propose to use an interface instead. The default implementation 
> could still delegate to =java.util.BitSet=.

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