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Dawid Weiss commented on LUCENE-7966:
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I wholeheartedly agree -- it's fascinating stuff and thanks to Robert and you 
for starting this. 

bq. We should compare:

Those bound checks will cost something -- the fact they're intrinsic methods 
doesn't mean they're free. There's another dimension to your list: the CPU 
architecture hotspot generates code for... I didn't look at the code, but those 
intrinsics will vary depending on what the CPU has to offer. So regardless of 
easier ideal graph optimizations (which is great!) there will be some assembly 
injected to make those bound checks work, especially on CPUs with less complex 
instruction set.

Like I said: very interesting stuff to work on and benchmark!

> build mr-jar and use some java 9 methods if available
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-7966
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7966
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: general/build
>            Reporter: Robert Muir
>         Attachments: LUCENE-7966.patch, LUCENE-7966.patch
>
>
> See background: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/238
> It would be nice to use some of the newer array methods and range checking 
> methods in java 9 for example, without waiting for lucene 10 or something. If 
> we build an MR-jar, we can start migrating our code to use java 9 methods 
> right now, it will use optimized methods from java 9 when thats available, 
> otherwise fall back to java 8 code.  
> This patch adds:
> {code}
> Objects.checkIndex(int,int)
> Objects.checkFromToIndex(int,int,int)
> Objects.checkFromIndexSize(int,int,int)
> Arrays.mismatch(byte[],int,int,byte[],int,int)
> Arrays.compareUnsigned(byte[],int,int,byte[],int,int)
> Arrays.equal(byte[],int,int,byte[],int,int)
> // did not add char/int/long/short/etc but of course its possible if needed
> {code}
> It sets these up in {{org.apache.lucene.future}} as 1-1 mappings to java 
> methods. This way, we can simply directly replace call sites with java 9 
> methods when java 9 is a minimum. Simple 1-1 mappings mean also that we only 
> have to worry about testing that our java 8 fallback methods work.
> I found that many of the current byte array methods today are willy-nilly and 
> very lenient for example, passing invalid offsets at times and relying on 
> compare methods not throwing exceptions, etc. I fixed all the instances in 
> core/codecs but have not looked at the problems with AnalyzingSuggester. Also 
> SimpleText still uses a silly method in ArrayUtil in similar crazy way, have 
> not removed that one yet.



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