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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-2843:
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bq. A hybrid solution, with term-dict being loaded completely into memory 
(either via mmap, or into arrays) on per-field basis, is probably best in the 
end, however sad it may be.

Whats the sad part again? why does it bother you if there is another 
alternative codec setup or terms dict implementation if you aren't using it?
Should we also only have RAMDirectory and MMapDirectory and its sad that we 
have NIOFSDirectory?


> Add variable-gap terms index impl.
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 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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