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[jira] [Assigned] (LUCENE-5721) Monotonic packed could maybe be
faster
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5721?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Adrien Grand reassigned LUCENE-5721:
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Assignee: Adrien Grand
> Monotonic packed could maybe be faster
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> Key: LUCENE-5721
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5721
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Robert Muir
> Assignee: Adrien Grand
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> This compression is used in lucene for monotonically increasing offsets, e.g. stored fields index, dv BINARY/SORTED_SET offsets, OrdinalMap (used for merging and faceting dv) and so on.
> Today this stores a +/- deviation from an expected line of y=mx + b, where b is the minValue for the block and m is the average delta from the previous value. Because it can be negative, we have to do some additional work to zigzag-decode.
> Can we just instead waste a bit for every value explicitly (lower the minValue by the min delta) so that deltas are always positive and we can have a simpler decode? Maybe If we do this, the new guy should assert that values are actually monotic at write-time. The current one supports "mostly monotic" but do we really need that flexibility anywhere? If so it could always be kept...
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