Thanks - thats all I'm asking for. A simple explanation of why you'd ask
for a retest with those two things changed. Just seems its hold your
cards a little to close to say - please do this with 0 explanation.

As to point 2, thats fine - I'm sure it helps - I was just saying I
didn't buy it helps by 20-40%. Not arguing against doing it, but since
the request had no info, the only thing I could assume was that that was
supposed to change things.

I was about to run some of these tests myself (if i can find what darn
revision to patch), and its a bit frustrating to see you guys knew
something but were not telling ...

Jake Mannix wrote:
> Mark,
>  
>   We're not seeing exactly the numbers that Mike is seeing in his tests,
> running with jdk 1.5 on intel macs, so we're trying to eliminate
> factors of difference.
>
>   Point 2 does indeed make a difference, we've seen it, and it's only
> fair: the
> single pq comparator does this branch optimization but the current
> patch multi-pq
> does not, so let's level the playing field.
>
>   John's on the road with limited net connectivity, but we'll have
> some numbers to
> compare more over the weekend for sure.
>
>   -jake
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com
> <mailto:markrmil...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Why? What might he find? Whats with the cryptic request?
>
>     Why would Java 1.5 perform better than 1.6? It erases 20 and 40%
>     gains?
>
>     I know point 2 certainly doesn't. Cards on the table?
>
>     John Wang wrote:
>     > Hey Michael:
>     >
>     >        Would you mind rerunning the test you have with jdk1.5?
>     >
>     >        Also, if you would, change the comparator method to avoid
>     > brachning for int and string comparators, e.g.
>     >
>     >
>     >       return index.order[i.doc] - index.order[j.doc];
>     >
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     >
>     >
>     > -John
>     >
>     >
>     > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Michael McCandless
>     > <luc...@mikemccandless.com <mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com>
>     <mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com
>     <mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:17 AM, John Wang
>     <john.w...@gmail.com <mailto:john.w...@gmail.com>
>     >     <mailto:john.w...@gmail.com <mailto:john.w...@gmail.com>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     >      I have been playing with the patch, and I think I
>     have some
>     >     information
>     >     > that you might like.
>     >     >      Let me spend sometime and gather some more numbers and
>     >     update in jira.
>     >
>     >     Excellent!
>     >
>     >     >      say bottom has ords 23, 45, 76, each corresponding to a
>     >     string. When
>     >     > moving to the next segment, you need to make bottom to
>     have ords
>     >     that can be
>     >     > comparable to other docs in this new segment, so you would
>     need
>     >     to find the
>     >     > new ords for the values in 23,45 and 76, don't you? To
>     find it,
>     >     assuming the
>     >     > values are s1,s2,s3, you would do a bin. search on the new val
>     >     array, and
>     >     > find index for s1,s2,s3.
>     >
>     >     It's that inversion (from ord->Comparable in first seg, and
>     >     Comparable->ord in second seg) that I'm trying to avoid (w/
>     this new
>     >     proposal).
>     >
>     >     > Which is 3 bin searches per convert, I am not sure
>     >     > how you can short circuit it. Are you suggesting we call
>     >     Comparable on
>     >     > compareBottom until some doc beats it?
>     >
>     >     I'm saying on seg transition you indeed get the Comparable
>     for current
>     >     bottom, but, don't attempt to invert it.  Instead, as seg 2
>     finds a
>     >     hit, you get that hit's Comparables and compare to bottom.
>      If it
>     >     beats bottom, it goes into the queue.  If it does not, you
>     use the ord
>     >     (in seg 2's ord space) to "learn" a bottom in the ord space
>     of seg 2.
>     >
>     >     > That would hurt performance I lot though, no?
>     >
>     >     Yeah I think likely it would, since we're talking about a binary
>     >     search on transition VS having to do possibly many
>     >     upgrade-to-Comparable and compare-Comparabls to slowly learn the
>     >     equivalent ord in the new segment.  I was proposing it for
>     cases where
>     >     inversion is very difficult.  But realistically, since you
>     must keep
>     >     around the ful ord -> Comparable for every segment anyway
>     (in order to
>     >     merge in the end), inversion shouldn't ever actually be
>     "difficult" --
>     >     it'd just be a binary search on presumably in-RAM storage.
>     >
>     >     Mike
>     >
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