Hi Robert, On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... > ... I'm strongly against having this > unscalable garbage in lucene's core. > > There is no use case for ed > 2, thats just crazy. I promise you there ARE use cases for edit distances > 2, especially with longer words. Due to NDA I can't go into details. Also ed>2 can be useful when COMBINING that low-quality part of the search with other sub-queries, or additional business rules. Maybe instead of boiling an ocean this lets you just boil the sea. ;-) I won't comment on the quality of the older Levenstein code, or the likely very slow performance, nor where the code should live, etc. But your statement about "no use case for ed > 2" is simply not true. (whether you'd agree with any of them or not is certainly another matter) I understand your concerns about not having it be the default. (or maybe having a giant warning message or something, whatever) -- > lucidworks.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
