Hi guys:
The new FieldComparator api looks really scary :)
But after some perf testing with numbers I'd like to share, I guess it
is worth it:
HW: Mac Pro with 16G memory
jvm: 1.6.0_13"
jvm arg: -Xms1g -Xmx1g -server
setup
index:
1M docs even split into 8 segments (to make sure the test is fair across
segment boundaries)
each doc has 3 fields:
1) id - stored
2) val - random number, indexed, not analyzed, no norms, omit tf
3) string - "even" or "odd" of the corresponding id, not analyzed, no norms,
omit tf
built with lucene 2.4.1 to keep the same index across lucene 2.4.1 and
lucene 2.9.0 search tests
Search:
query on the term: "even" (TermQuery, minimizes the overhead of the text
search), matches 500k docs, and across segment boundary, sort by val, sort
type: string. Numhits, e.g. number of slots = 100.
ran 20 iterations of the same query for each test.
First query, includes loading
lucene 2.4.1: 4858ms, lucene 2.9.0: 816ms, gain of 595%
avg of the rest 19 queries:
lucene 2.4.1: 32ms, lucene 2.9.0: 17ms , gain of 188%
I ran this test about 5 times, the findings are similar.
The performance gain is significant!
Great job!
-John
