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Shai Erera resolved LUCENE-4609.
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       Resolution: Not A Problem
    Lucene Fields: New,Patch Available  (was: New)

Closing as "Not A Problem". All the attempts didn't show that there's a better 
encoding than VInt for categories, because their indexing nature (including 
range of values) is unexpected. VInt is fast and achieves good compression. We 
can re-open it in the future if we want.
                
> Write a PackedIntsEncoder/Decoder for facets
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-4609
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4609
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: modules/facet
>            Reporter: Shai Erera
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: LUCENE-4609.patch, LUCENE-4609.patch, LUCENE-4609.patch, 
> LUCENE-4609.patch, LUCENE-4609.patch, SemiPackedEncoder.patch
>
>
> Today the facets API lets you write IntEncoder/Decoder to encode/decode the 
> category ordinals. We have several such encoders, including VInt (default), 
> and block encoders.
> It would be interesting to implement and benchmark a 
> PackedIntsEncoder/Decoder, with potentially two variants: (1) receives 
> bitsPerValue up front, when you e.g. know that you have a small taxonomy and 
> the max value you can see and (2) one that decides for each doc on the 
> optimal bitsPerValue, writes it as a header in the byte[] or something.

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