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[jira] [Commented] (LUCENE-3297) FST doesn't fully share common
prefix across all outputs
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Dawid Weiss commented on LUCENE-3297:
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Ok, I've found the issue I was looking for. Mike, this should be solved by changing the logical organization of the fst. This would also solve the issue of storing an "empty" automaton and its output (which is currently hardcoded in an unpleasant way). The solution is to introduce an epsilon-labeled arc (epsilon meaning an out-of-alphabet symbol, possibly a flag). The "root" of the fst would be an eps-labeled transition to the actual root node. Then, an empty automaton is basically an eps-terminal transition and prefix sharing you talk about in this issue is whatever can be pushed onto this eps-arc. The automaton remains deterministic, it's just a small change of logic (and addition of the special eps symbol).
> FST doesn't fully share common prefix across all outputs
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> Key: LUCENE-3297
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3297
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core/FSTs
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Priority: Minor
>
> FST will try to share prefixes of outputs when possible, however in the [I think unusual in practice] case where all outputs share a common prefix, FST really ought to store this just once, on the root arc, but instead it's only able to push back to the N root arcs. It's sort of an off-by-one on how far back the pushing goes...
> One [synthetic] example where this makes a big difference is the new Test2BPostings test, when it uses MemoryCodec, because this test has 26 terms (letters of alphabet) and each term has exactly the same long (~85 MB) all 1s byte[] as the postings. If we fixed this issue, then the resulting FST would only be ~85 MB but now instead it needs to be ~85 * 26 MB.
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