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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-3359:
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No? Many european languages have the same suffix too.
But the term dictionary needs to be in sorted order for many reasons.
Things like this are better discussed on the mailing list.
> Option for no Front Encoding of term compression
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> Key: LUCENE-3359
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3359
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core/index
> Affects Versions: 3.3
> Reporter: Gang Luo
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: Encoding, Front, compression
> Original Estimate: 72h
> Remaining Estimate: 72h
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> Average length of a word in the English language is 5.1 , so Front Encoding
> of term compression in index is meaningful. But average length of a word in
> the Chinese language is 2.3. No need Front Encoding for chinese document
> index?
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