On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Stefan Trcek <wzzelfz...@abas.de> wrote: > On Friday 27 November 2009 12:07:07 Michael McCandless wrote: >> Re: What does "out of order" mean? >> >> It refers to the order in which the docIDs are delivered to your >> Collector. >> >> "Normally" they are always delivered in increasing order. >> >> However, some queries (well, currently only certain BooleanQuery >> cases) can achieve substantial search speedup if they are allowed to >> deliver docIDs to your collector out of order. In this case, docs >> are processed in batches (chunks of 1024 docIDs at once), and within >> a batch you may receive docIDs out of order. >> >> Many collectors don't mind getting docIDs out of order, and so it's >> important to return "true" from your acceptDocsOutOfOrder method so >> Lucene can allow BooleanQuery to run faster. > > Can this paragraph go to the docs?
OK I just committed this to the javadocs. Thanks! > May be I missed it, but I stumpled upon "out of order" and "in order" > several times and wasn't sure what will be the consequence of the > decision. Not even sure what will be the "don't care" case. > > I like "don't care" options like "Version.LUCENE_CURRENT" very much. > It allows the library to do the best if I don't care. Right, this is in general an important effect of the Version.LUCENE_CURRENT option -- you give Lucene the freedom to 1) fix bugs from past versions and 2) improve defaults for settings for better out-of-the-box performance. But if precise back compat is important to your app, so important that you want newer versions of Lucene to emulate the bugs of past releases, then you set the Version to a specific release (eg Version.LUCENE_24). For this particualr setting (in- vs out-of-order docIDs during collection), Lucene's core collectors (that sort by relevance score, and by field values) are carefully picked depending on whether the query itself would like to score docIDs out of order. We do this because there's a small performance gain for these collectors if they know the docIDs will arrive in order. So the "don't care" equivalent here is to use IndexSearcher's normal search APIs (ie, we don't use Version to switch this on or off). Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
