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Toke Eskildsen commented on LUCENE-1990:
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In the original proof of concept for LUCENE-2335, I measured the time for
extracting top-20 for ... 10 million? documents and got something like 600ms
when using PackedInts, which is fairly slow in my book and recall getting
better performance with straight arrays for that. This is all wery fuzzy though
and I'd love to be proven wrong. If PackedInts are faster for sorting too, it's
getting very hard to see the downside of that representation.
Since LUCENE-2335 relies heavily on arays of sorted indexes into ordinal
arrays, I'll make sure to performance test both PackedInts and straight arrays
for sorted search.
> Add unsigned packed int impls in oal.util
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-1990
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1990
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Index
> Affects Versions: Flex Branch
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: Flex Branch
>
> Attachments: generated_performance-te20100226.txt,
> LUCENE-1990-te20100122.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100210.patch,
> LUCENE-1990-te20100212.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100223.patch,
> LUCENE-1990-te20100226.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100226b.patch,
> LUCENE-1990-te20100226c.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100301.patch,
> LUCENE-1990.patch, LUCENE-1990.patch,
> LUCENE-1990_PerformanceMeasurements20100104.zip, perf-mkm-20100227.txt,
> performance-20100301.txt, performance-te20100226.txt
>
>
> There are various places in Lucene that could take advantage of an
> efficient packed unsigned int/long impl. EG the terms dict index in
> the standard codec in LUCENE-1458 could subsantially reduce it's RAM
> usage. FieldCache.StringIndex could as well. And I think "load into
> RAM" codecs like the one in TestExternalCodecs could use this too.
> I'm picturing something very basic like:
> {code}
> interface PackedUnsignedLongs {
> long get(long index);
> void set(long index, long value);
> }
> {code}
> Plus maybe an iterator for getting and maybe also for setting. If it
> helps, most of the usages of this inside Lucene will be "write once"
> so eg the set could make that an assumption/requirement.
> And a factory somewhere:
> {code}
> PackedUnsignedLongs create(int count, long maxValue);
> {code}
> I think we should simply autogen the code (we can start from the
> autogen code in LUCENE-1410), or, if there is an good existing impl
> that has a compatible license that'd be great.
> I don't have time near-term to do this... so if anyone has the itch,
> please jump!
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