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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-1799:
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bq. I was genuinely surprised when you reported "now we are faster than utf-8 
on average for encode", so I set out to benchmark it myself and report back. In 
addition, I wanted to see what the encoding speed diff was for some different 
languages.

For all of unicode yes, you just didnt pick a good variety of languages, or 
didnt tokenize them well (e.g. using an english tokenizer for chinese). 
I've been measuring against many, and i already checked the bigram 
(cjktokenizer) case to make sure that cjk was always smaller (its not much... 
e.g. 5 bytes instead of 6, but its better)


> Unicode compression
> -------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1799
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1799
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Store
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.1
>            Reporter: DM Smith
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: Benchmark.java, Benchmark.java, Benchmark.java, 
> LUCENE-1779.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, 
> LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, 
> LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, 
> LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799.patch, LUCENE-1799_big.patch
>
>
> In lucene-1793, there is the off-topic suggestion to provide compression of 
> Unicode data. The motivation was a custom encoding in a Russian analyzer. The 
> original supposition was that it provided a more compact index.
> This led to the comment that a different or compressed encoding would be a 
> generally useful feature. 
> BOCU-1 was suggested as a possibility. This is a patented algorithm by IBM 
> with an implementation in ICU. If Lucene provide it's own implementation a 
> freely avIlable, royalty-free license would need to be obtained.
> SCSU is another Unicode compression algorithm that could be used. 
> An advantage of these methods is that they work on the whole of Unicode. If 
> that is not needed an encoding such as iso8859-1 (or whatever covers the 
> input) could be used.    

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