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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-1593:
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bq. I thought these were introduced as part of LUCENE-1483 for performance
reasons. Are we sure that removing these, just for the sake of what looks like
minor optimizations to TSDC and TFC (not breaking a tie on doc Id) is worth it?
Right, this was added in LUCENE-1483, and I think we should remove it, ie
IndexSearcher will always visit docIDs in order again.
The optimization was done for the StringValCollector: that collector "in
general" has better performance if you give it the biggest segments first,
since the queue should converge faster and require less fallback to by-value
comparisons. But I believe that is a minor optimization in general since
segments tend to be biggest to smallest, already, except for indexes with many
deletes on the older segments.
My feeling is we can proceed without testing it; I believe this "not breaking
tie by docID" will be a bigger win.
> Optimizations to TopScoreDocCollector and TopFieldCollector
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-1593
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1593
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Search
> Reporter: Shai Erera
> Fix For: 2.9
>
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> This is a spin-off of LUCENE-1575 and proposes to optimize TSDC and TFC code
> to remove unnecessary checks. The plan is:
> # Ensure that IndexSearcher returns segements in increasing doc Id order,
> instead of numDocs().
> # Change TSDC and TFC's code to not use the doc id as a tie breaker. New docs
> will always have larger ids and therefore cannot compete.
> # Pre-populate HitQueue with sentinel values in TSDC (score = Float.NEG_INF)
> and remove the check if reusableSD == null.
> # Also move to use "changing top" and then call adjustTop(), in case we
> update the queue.
> # some methods in Sort explicitly add SortField.FIELD_DOC as a "tie breaker"
> for the last SortField. But, doing so should not be necessary (since we
> already break ties by docID), and is in fact less efficient (once the above
> optimization is in).
> # Investigate PQ - can we deprecate insert() and have only
> insertWithOverflow()? Add a addDummyObjects method which will populate the
> queue without "arranging" it, just store the objects in the array (this can
> be used to pre-populate sentinel values)?
> I will post a patch as well as some perf measurements as soon as I have them.
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