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Paul Elschot commented on LUCENE-1990:
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How about encoding the header something like this:

VByte 1 bit.
Simple9 4 bits. These cases imply valueCount and maxValue.
For around 4-16 numbers encode the complete header in 5-6 bits, also implying 
valueCount and maxValue.
For FrameOfRef, encoding 32 or more numbers, a larger header can be used, 4 
bytes for example, maxValue is implied from the number of frame bits. 
valueCount could be 32, 64, 128 (i.e. 2 bits). Also the number of exceptions 
could be put there.

This header "type" can be chosen depending on the given length of the encoded 
sequence.


> Add unsigned packed int impls in oal.util
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1990
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1990
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Index
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: LUCENE-1990.patch, 
> LUCENE-1990_PerformanceMeasurements20100104.zip
>
>
> There are various places in Lucene that could take advantage of an
> efficient packed unsigned int/long impl.  EG the terms dict index in
> the standard codec in LUCENE-1458 could subsantially reduce it's RAM
> usage.  FieldCache.StringIndex could as well.  And I think "load into
> RAM" codecs like the one in TestExternalCodecs could use this too.
> I'm picturing something very basic like:
> {code}
> interface PackedUnsignedLongs  {
>   long get(long index);
>   void set(long index, long value);
> }
> {code}
> Plus maybe an iterator for getting and maybe also for setting.  If it
> helps, most of the usages of this inside Lucene will be "write once"
> so eg the set could make that an assumption/requirement.
> And a factory somewhere:
> {code}
>   PackedUnsignedLongs create(int count, long maxValue);
> {code}
> I think we should simply autogen the code (we can start from the
> autogen code in LUCENE-1410), or, if there is an good existing impl
> that has a compatible license that'd be great.
> I don't have time near-term to do this... so if anyone has the itch,
> please jump!

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