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Toke Eskildsen updated LUCENE-1990: ----------------------------------- Attachment: LUCENE-1990-te20100226.patch Now we're getting somewhere. I finally squashed the persistence bug and the tests has been turned up another notch. Everything seems to run as it should. Pending issues, as I see them: - Review of the code - Should we make a MutableWriter? - Should we drop support for aligned? The last one is interesting. The code for getting a value from aligned uses devision and a single RAM-request: {code} public long get(final int index) { final int blockPos = index / valuesPerBlock; final int bitPos = (index - (blockPos * valuesPerBlock)) * bitsPerValue; return (blocks[blockPos] >>> shifts[bitPos]) & readMask; {code} where the code for packed uses shift and two RAM-requests: {code} final long majorBitPos = index * bitsPerValue; final int elementPos = (int)(majorBitPos >>> BLOCK_BITS); // / BLOCK_SIZE final int bitPos = (int)(majorBitPos & MOD_MASK); // % BLOCK_SIZE); final int base = bitPos * FAC_BITPOS; return ((blocks[elementPos] << shifts[base]) >>> shifts[base+1]) | ((blocks[elementPos+1] >>> shifts[base+2]) & readMasks[bitPos]); {code} I have done some tests (see the TODO-file in the attached patch) and on 64 bit machines, the difference in access-speed for aligned vs. packed is not that great and not always in favor of aligned. Probably because some space is wasted and the RAM-cache is not so well utilized. If this is also the case for 32 bit machines, I vote for removing aligned and only used packed with the special-case optimizations direct8, direct16, direct32 and direct64. This would also mean that there is only one persistent format. {code} java -cp lucene-core-3.1-dev.jar org.apache.lucene.util.packed.PackedIntsPerformance {code} Runs throught the performance tests and delivers a simple report, so it should be very easy to test on different platforms. It only measures access speed. I consider this patch ready for review and concentrate on other matters until I hear more. > 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-te20100122.patch, > LUCENE-1990-te20100210.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100212.patch, > LUCENE-1990-te20100223.patch, LUCENE-1990-te20100226.patch, > 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! -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org