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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-2843:
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In-memory terms dict would be great.  I agree it'd fundamentally change how we 
execute eg the automaton queries (suddenly we can just intersect against the 
terms dict instead of doing the seek/next thing); FuzzyQuery might be a direct 
search through the terms dict instead of first building the LevN DFA; 
respelling similarly...

But, I suspect we'll always have to support the "on-disk only" option because 
some apps seem to have an insane number of terms.

> Add variable-gap terms index impl.
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-2843
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2843
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Index
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>            Assignee: Michael McCandless
>             Fix For: 4.0
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-2843.patch, LUCENE-2843.patch
>
>
> PrefixCodedTermsReader/Writer (used by all "real" core codecs) already
> supports pluggable terms index impls.
> The only impl we have now is FixedGapTermsIndexReader/Writer, which
> picks every Nth (default 32) term and holds it in efficient packed
> int/byte arrays in RAM.  This is already an enormous improvement (RAM
> reduction, init time) over 3.x.
> This patch adds another impl, VariableGapTermsIndexReader/Writer,
> which lets you specify an arbitrary IndexTermSelector to pick which
> terms are indexed, and then uses an FST to hold the indexed terms.
> This is typically even more memory efficient than packed int/byte
> arrays, though, it does not support ord() so it's not quite a fair
> comparison.
> I had to relax the terms index plugin api for
> PrefixCodedTermsReader/Writer to not assume that the terms index impl
> supports ord.
> I also did some cleanup of the FST/FSTEnum APIs and impls, and broke
> out separate seekCeil and seekFloor in FSTEnum.  Eg we need seekFloor
> when the FST is used as a terms index but seekCeil when it's holding
> all terms in the index (ie which SimpleText uses FSTs for).

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