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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-2340:
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bq. This can be problematic and causes a big overhead when using large
blockSize (e.g., 1024), on small segments or on rare term posting list.
The block is "shared" across postings, so a rare posting list in an otherwise
big segment should be fine?
Small segments will indeed be wasteful, but they'll presumably quickly be
merged away.
bq. The new implementation of SimpleIntBlockIndex* is even more silly than the
previous one, and store a vint at the beginning of each block for recording the
length of a block.
Would other less-silly impls also need to do this? Ie the thing I want to
avoid is foisting onto all block-based codecs the need to track the size of
every block...
> FixedIntBlockIndexOutput encodes unnecessary integers at the end of a list
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> Key: LUCENE-2340
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2340
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Index
> Affects Versions: Flex Branch
> Reporter: Renaud Delbru
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: Flex Branch
>
> Attachments: LUCENE-1458-FixedIntBlockIndexOutput.patch,
> LUCENE-1458-FixedIntBlockIndexOutput.patch
>
>
> At closing time, the current FixedIntBlockIndexOutput flushes blocks of
> blockSize even if there is only a few integers in the block.
> This can be problematic and causes a big overhead when using large blockSize
> (e.g., 1024), on small segments or on rare term posting list.
> One solution will be to have a secondary flushBlock method with an additional
> paramter: the valid length of a buffer. This method will be only called in
> the FixedIntBlockIndexOutput#close() method.
> The way this particular block of integers are encoded are left to subclasses.
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