This is the approach for "words that begin with" using an alpha-span on the site:
A B C D E F G ... The user clicks "A" and I would use conditions_A. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ok, so you are pre-partitioning the facet field based on initial > letter. So all the texts that start from A will go into conditions_A > and all the texts that start from C will go into conditions_C. > Interesting approach. Ignore whatever I said before. > > If this does not cause other issues, than it is possible that the > partitioned approach will be slightly more efficient because it does > not need to load into memory the field cache for non_A content. But > that could be more memory size efficiency than the speed one. > > Regards, > Alex. > Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch > - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all > at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD > book) > > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:33 AM, William Bell <billnb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just to be perfectly clear, it is not a binary field. > > > > conditions = "A west side story" > > conditions = "The edge of reason" > > > > I look for those strings beginning with A and set that in conditions_A: > > > > conditions_A = "A west side story" > > > > OK? > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch > > <arafa...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> I am quite sure that the binary flag will be faster as you will just > >> get a gigantic vector pre-loaded into memory. The problem starts if > >> you are going to have lots of those prefixes. Then, the memory > >> requirements may become an issue. Then, the facet becomes more > >> flexible as it uses the same list for any arbitrary prefix. > >> > >> There are my thoughts (as requested). I haven't tested this in > production. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Alex. > >> Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ > >> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch > >> - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all > >> at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD > >> book) > >> > >> > >> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:20 AM, William Bell <billnb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > What should be better for performance to get those facets that begins > >> with > >> > A? > >> > > >> > 1. > >> > facet=true&facet.field=conditions&facet.prefix=A > >> > > >> > 2. > >> > When indexing create a new field conditions_A, and use it: > >> > facet=true&facet.field=conditions_A > >> > > >> > Thoughts? > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Bill Bell > >> > billnb...@gmail.com > >> > cell 720-256-8076 > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Bill Bell > > billnb...@gmail.com > > cell 720-256-8076 > -- Bill Bell billnb...@gmail.com cell 720-256-8076
