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Paul Smith commented on LUCENE-467: ----------------------------------- If you can create a patch against 1.4.3 there is a reasonable possibility that I could create a 1.4.3 Lucene+ThisPatch jar and re-index in our test environment that was the source of the YourKit graph I provided earlier. This should reflect how useful the change might be against a decent baseline? > Use Float.floatToRawIntBits over Float.floatToIntBits > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-467 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-467 > Project: Lucene - Java > Type: Improvement > Components: Other > Versions: 1.9 > Reporter: Yonik Seeley > Priority: Minor > > Copied From my Email: > Float.floatToRawIntBits (in Java1.4) gives the raw float bits without > normalization (like *(int*)&floatvar would in C). Since it doesn't do > normalization of NaN values, it's faster (and hopefully optimized to a > simple inline machine instruction by the JVM). > On my Pentium4, using floatToRawIntBits is over 5 times as fast as > floatToIntBits. > That can really add up in something like Similarity.floatToByte() for > encoding norms, especially if used as a way to compress an array of > float during query time as suggested by Doug. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
