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Han Jiang commented on LUCENE-4161:
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Hi Adrien, we're trying to use PackedInts in LUCENE-3892 to compress/decompress
an int array. Currently, to support block skipping, we need to know the on-disk
size of a compressed block before it is written into output stream. Seems that
PackedInts.Reader.ramBytesUsed() doesn't meet the requirement? Do we have other
methods to solve this problem?
> Make PackedInts usable by codecs
> --------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-4161
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4161
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core/store
> Reporter: Adrien Grand
> Assignee: Adrien Grand
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 4.0-ALPHA
>
> Attachments: LUCENE-4161.patch, LUCENE-4161.patch
>
>
> Some codecs might be interested in using
> PackedInts.{Writer,Reader,ReaderIterator} to read and write fixed-size values
> efficiently.
> The problem is that the serialization format is self contained, and always
> writes the name of the codec, its version, its number of bits per value and
> its format. For example, if you want to use packed ints to store your
> postings list, this is a lot of overhead (at least ~60 bytes per term, in
> case you only use one Writer per term, more otherwise).
> Users should be able to externalize the storage of metadata to save space.
> For example, to use PackedInts to store a postings list, one should be able
> to store the codec name, its version and the number of bits per doc in the
> header of the terms+postings list instead of having to write it once (or
> more!) per term.
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