Chuck, On Sunday 12 December 2004 04:01, Chuck Williams wrote: > I'd be surprised if the function call overhead was significant, but > nonetheless I can't argue with optimizing the sum case. However, it
In case you have performance data, I'm all ears. ... > <soapbox> > I maintain the belief that max is *required* to implement reasonable > multi-field searching (1). I can't imagine a case where the current I agree that a maximum score over fields is useful. ... > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Paul Elschot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 2:05 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Boolean Scorer > > > > Chuck, > > > > On Friday 10 December 2004 23:12, Chuck Williams wrote: > > > Paul, > > > > > > Would there be a way to get the best of both worlds? E.g., could > you > > > factor the specializable score combination differently, so that > one > > > method was called with each new score to generate a state entity, > > while > > > a final method computed the score from the state. For both sum > and > > max, > > > the state entity could just be a float, not requiring an array. > The > > > final operation for the sum with coord case would do the coord. I > > > haven't looked at the code carefully enough to see if this > actually > > > works, but it seemed worth mentioning. > > > > It's simple enough to do some abstract method call instead of > > initializing > > a sum or adding to it. The problem is that as long as such a call is > not > > effectively inlined by the JVM, it will cause a performance hit for > the > > sum > > case. > > > > The latest version of the advanceAfterCurrent method that computes > the > > score is java protected. It can be overridden to make the best > > of it in another world. I'm afraid I should have left the last three words out. I'm sorry if they can be interpreted in a negative way, that was not my intention. Regards, Paul Elschot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
