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Christian Ziech updated LUCENE-5584:
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    Description: 
The FST class heavily reuses Arc instances when traversing the FST. The output 
of an Arc however is not reused. This can especially be important when 
traversing large portions of a FST and using the ByteSequenceOutputs and 
CharSequenceOutputs. Those classes create a new byte[] or char[] for every node 
read (which has an output).
In our use case we intersect a lucene Automaton with a FST<BytesRef> much like 
it is done in 
org.apache.lucene.search.suggest.analyzing.FSTUtil.intersectPrefixPaths() and 
since the Automaton and the FST are both rather large tens or even hundreds of 
thousands of temporary byte array objects are created.

One possible solution to the problem would be to change the 
org.apache.lucene.util.fst.Outputs class to have two additional methods (if you 
don't want to change the existing methods for compatibility):
{code}

  /** Decode an output value previously written with {@link
   *  #write(Object, DataOutput)} reusing the object passed in if possible */
  public abstract T read(DataInput in, T reuse) throws IOException;

  /** Decode an output value previously written with {@link
   *  #writeFinalOutput(Object, DataOutput)}.  By default this
   *  just calls {@link #read(DataInput)}. This tries to  reuse the object   
   *  passed in if possible */
  public T readFinalOutput(DataInput in, T reuse) throws IOException {
    return read(in, reuse);
  }
{code}
The new methods could then be used in the FST in the readNextRealArc() method 
passing in the output of the reused Arc. For most inputs they could even just 
invoke the original read(in) method.

If you should decide to make that change I'd be happy to supply a patch and/or 
tests for the feature.

  was:
The FST class heavily reuses Arc instances when traversing the FST. The output 
of an Arc however is not reused. This can especially be important when 
traversing large portions of a FST and using the ByteSequenceOutputs and 
CharSequenceOutputs. Those classes create a new byte[] or char[] for every node 
read (which has an output).
In our use case we intersect a lucene Automaton with a FST<BytesRef> much like 
it is done in 
org.apache.lucene.search.suggest.analyzing.FSTUtil.intersectPrefixPaths() and 
since the Automaton and the FST are both rather large tens or even hundreds of 
thousands of temporary byte array objects are created.

One possible solution to the problem would be to change the 
org.apache.lucene.util.fst.Outputs class to have two additional methods (if you 
don't want to change the existing methods for compatibility):
{code}

  /** Decode an output value previously written with {@link
   *  #write(Object, DataOutput)} reusing the object passed in if possible */
  public abstract T read(DataInput in, T reuse) throws IOException;

  /** Decode an output value previously written with {@link
   *  #writeFinalOutput(Object, DataOutput)}.  By default this
   *  just calls {@link #read(DataInput)}. This tries to  reuse the object   
   *  passed in if possible */
  public T readFinalOutput(DataInput in, T reuse) throws IOException {
    return read(in, reuse);
  }
{code}
The new methods could then be used in the FST in the readNextRealArc() method 
passing in the output of the reused Arc. For most inputs they could even just 
invoke the original read(in) method.

If you should decide to make that change I'd be happy to supply a patch and/or 
tests for feature.


> Allow FST read method to also recycle the output value when traversing FST
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-5584
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5584
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core/FSTs
>    Affects Versions: 4.7.1
>            Reporter: Christian Ziech
>
> The FST class heavily reuses Arc instances when traversing the FST. The 
> output of an Arc however is not reused. This can especially be important when 
> traversing large portions of a FST and using the ByteSequenceOutputs and 
> CharSequenceOutputs. Those classes create a new byte[] or char[] for every 
> node read (which has an output).
> In our use case we intersect a lucene Automaton with a FST<BytesRef> much 
> like it is done in 
> org.apache.lucene.search.suggest.analyzing.FSTUtil.intersectPrefixPaths() and 
> since the Automaton and the FST are both rather large tens or even hundreds 
> of thousands of temporary byte array objects are created.
> One possible solution to the problem would be to change the 
> org.apache.lucene.util.fst.Outputs class to have two additional methods (if 
> you don't want to change the existing methods for compatibility):
> {code}
>   /** Decode an output value previously written with {@link
>    *  #write(Object, DataOutput)} reusing the object passed in if possible */
>   public abstract T read(DataInput in, T reuse) throws IOException;
>   /** Decode an output value previously written with {@link
>    *  #writeFinalOutput(Object, DataOutput)}.  By default this
>    *  just calls {@link #read(DataInput)}. This tries to  reuse the object   
>    *  passed in if possible */
>   public T readFinalOutput(DataInput in, T reuse) throws IOException {
>     return read(in, reuse);
>   }
> {code}
> The new methods could then be used in the FST in the readNextRealArc() method 
> passing in the output of the reused Arc. For most inputs they could even just 
> invoke the original read(in) method.
> If you should decide to make that change I'd be happy to supply a patch 
> and/or tests for the feature.



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