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Mark Miller commented on LUCENE-1606:
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By the way Mark, in case you are interested, the TermEnum here still has 
problems with 'kleene star' as I have mentioned many times.
So wildcard of ?abacadaba is fast, wildcard of *abacadaba is still slow
in the same manner, regex of .abacadaba is fast, wildcard of .*abacadaba is 
still slow.
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No problem in my mind - nothing the current WildcardQuery doesn't face. Any 
reason we wouldn't want to the current WCQ that with this?

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but there are algorithms to reverse an entire dfa, so you could use 
ReverseStringFilter and support wildcards AND regexps with leading *
I didnt implement this here though yet.
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Now that sounds interesting - now sure I fully understand you though - are you 
saying we can do a prefix match, but without having to index terms reversed in 
the index? That would be very cool.

> Automaton Query/Filter (scalable regex)
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1606
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1606
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: contrib/*
>            Reporter: Robert Muir
>            Assignee: Robert Muir
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.1
>
>         Attachments: automaton.patch, automatonMultiQuery.patch, 
> automatonmultiqueryfuzzy.patch, automatonMultiQuerySmart.patch, 
> automatonWithWildCard.patch, automatonWithWildCard2.patch, LUCENE-1606.patch, 
> LUCENE-1606.patch
>
>
> Attached is a patch for an AutomatonQuery/Filter (name can change if its not 
> suitable).
> Whereas the out-of-box contrib RegexQuery is nice, I have some very large 
> indexes (100M+ unique tokens) where queries are quite slow, 2 minutes, etc. 
> Additionally all of the existing RegexQuery implementations in Lucene are 
> really slow if there is no constant prefix. This implementation does not 
> depend upon constant prefix, and runs the same query in 640ms.
> Some use cases I envision:
>  1. lexicography/etc on large text corpora
>  2. looking for things such as urls where the prefix is not constant (http:// 
> or ftp://)
> The Filter uses the BRICS package (http://www.brics.dk/automaton/) to convert 
> regular expressions into a DFA. Then, the filter "enumerates" terms in a 
> special way, by using the underlying state machine. Here is my short 
> description from the comments:
>      The algorithm here is pretty basic. Enumerate terms but instead of a 
> binary accept/reject do:
>       
>      1. Look at the portion that is OK (did not enter a reject state in the 
> DFA)
>      2. Generate the next possible String and seek to that.
> the Query simply wraps the filter with ConstantScoreQuery.
> I did not include the automaton.jar inside the patch but it can be downloaded 
> from http://www.brics.dk/automaton/ and is BSD-licensed.

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