>>   I guess I should be more clear in the email.

No - If you mentioned before the other info and I missed it, just say:
Mark you don't know what your talking about it and you missed the info.
Thats what I'd do.

You just caught me at a time when I'm trying to get these tests going
myself, and a little frustrated at the lack of info. I'd consider trying
Java 6 vs Java 1.5 or something on Linux, but with no reason why I
should, its like .. come on - throw me a bone.

John Wang wrote:
> Mike:
>
>        I did just post with what I saw, feel free to read and comment
> on it.
>
>        I am simply trying to work with Michael on this and trying to
> understand the code.
>
>        As I have expressed previously, I have seen a difference
> between 1.5 and 1.6 that is significant. Since Mike has posted some
> numbers on jdk 1.6, I was hoping to eliminate all variables relating
> to the index and environment and see if he sees the same thing.
>
>         I guess I should be more clear in the email.
>
> -John
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com
> <mailto:markrmil...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am patient :) And I'm not speaking for Mike, I'm speaking for
>     me. I'm
>     wondering what your seeing. Asking Mike to rerun the tests without
>     giving any further info (you didn't even say that your seeing
>     something
>     different) is unfair to the rest of us ;)
>
>     Giving 0 info along with your request just makes 0 sense to me and I
>     said as much.
>
>     John Wang wrote:
>     > Mark:
>     >
>     >        Please be patient with me. I am seeing a difference and was
>     > wondering if Mike would see the same thing. I thought Michael
>     would be
>     > willing to because he expressed interest in understanding what the
>     > performance discrepancies are.
>     >
>     >        Again, it is only a request. It is perfectly fine if Michael
>     > refuses to. But it would be great if Michael speaks for himself.
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     >
>     > -John
>     >
>     > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Mark Miller
>     <markrmil...@gmail.com <mailto:markrmil...@gmail.com>
>     > <mailto:markrmil...@gmail.com <mailto:markrmil...@gmail.com>>>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     Why? What might he find? Whats with the cryptic request?
>     >
>     >     Why would Java 1.5 perform better than 1.6? It erases 20 and 40%
>     >     gains?
>     >
>     >     I know point 2 certainly doesn't. Cards on the table?
>     >
>     >     John Wang wrote:
>     >     > Hey Michael:
>     >     >
>     >     >        Would you mind rerunning the test you have with jdk1.5?
>     >     >
>     >     >        Also, if you would, change the comparator method to
>     avoid
>     >     > brachning for int and string comparators, e.g.
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     >       return index.order[i.doc] - index.order[j.doc];
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     > Thanks
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     > -John
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Michael McCandless
>     >     > <luc...@mikemccandless.com
>     <mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com>
>     <mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com <mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com>>
>     >     <mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com
>     <mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com>
>     >     <mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com
>     <mailto:luc...@mikemccandless.com>>>> wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >     On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:17 AM, John Wang
>     >     <john.w...@gmail.com <mailto:john.w...@gmail.com>
>     <mailto:john.w...@gmail.com <mailto:john.w...@gmail.com>>
>     >     >     <mailto:john.w...@gmail.com
>     <mailto:john.w...@gmail.com> <mailto:john.w...@gmail.com
>     <mailto:john.w...@gmail.com>>>>
>     >     wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >     >      I have been playing with the patch, and I think I
>     >     have some
>     >     >     information
>     >     >     > that you might like.
>     >     >     >      Let me spend sometime and gather some more
>     numbers and
>     >     >     update in jira.
>     >     >
>     >     >     Excellent!
>     >     >
>     >     >     >      say bottom has ords 23, 45, 76, each
>     corresponding to a
>     >     >     string. When
>     >     >     > moving to the next segment, you need to make bottom to
>     >     have ords
>     >     >     that can be
>     >     >     > comparable to other docs in this new segment, so you
>     would
>     >     need
>     >     >     to find the
>     >     >     > new ords for the values in 23,45 and 76, don't you? To
>     >     find it,
>     >     >     assuming the
>     >     >     > values are s1,s2,s3, you would do a bin. search on
>     the new val
>     >     >     array, and
>     >     >     > find index for s1,s2,s3.
>     >     >
>     >     >     It's that inversion (from ord->Comparable in first
>     seg, and
>     >     >     Comparable->ord in second seg) that I'm trying to
>     avoid (w/
>     >     this new
>     >     >     proposal).
>     >     >
>     >     >     > Which is 3 bin searches per convert, I am not sure
>     >     >     > how you can short circuit it. Are you suggesting we call
>     >     >     Comparable on
>     >     >     > compareBottom until some doc beats it?
>     >     >
>     >     >     I'm saying on seg transition you indeed get the Comparable
>     >     for current
>     >     >     bottom, but, don't attempt to invert it.  Instead, as
>     seg 2
>     >     finds a
>     >     >     hit, you get that hit's Comparables and compare to bottom.
>     >      If it
>     >     >     beats bottom, it goes into the queue.  If it does not, you
>     >     use the ord
>     >     >     (in seg 2's ord space) to "learn" a bottom in the ord
>     space
>     >     of seg 2.
>     >     >
>     >     >     > That would hurt performance I lot though, no?
>     >     >
>     >     >     Yeah I think likely it would, since we're talking
>     about a binary
>     >     >     search on transition VS having to do possibly many
>     >     >     upgrade-to-Comparable and compare-Comparabls to slowly
>     learn the
>     >     >     equivalent ord in the new segment.  I was proposing it for
>     >     cases where
>     >     >     inversion is very difficult.  But realistically, since you
>     >     must keep
>     >     >     around the ful ord -> Comparable for every segment anyway
>     >     (in order to
>     >     >     merge in the end), inversion shouldn't ever actually be
>     >     "difficult" --
>     >     >     it'd just be a binary search on presumably in-RAM storage.
>     >     >
>     >     >     Mike
>     >     >
>     >     >
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