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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-1799:
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But looking at the benchmark, it looks like the majority of the time could be 
just making random strings.
I made a modified Benchmark.java that pulls out this string creation and only 
tests encoding performance.
Here are my results:

UTF8=2936 BOCU-1=4310
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I think your benchmark isnt very reliable (i got really different results), so 
i added an extra 0 to do 10x more terms:
char[][] terms = new char[10000][];

ret=716132704 UTF-8 encode: 35081
ret=716132704BOCU-1 encode: 36517

Like i said before, i don't see a 20% difference.


> 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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