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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:00:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Michael Busch (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (LUCENE-629) Performance improvement for merging
 stored, compressed fields
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    [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-629?page=comments#action_12421920 ] 
            
Michael Busch commented on LUCENE-629:
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Yonik,

in the original version the FieldsReader maps the boolean values "compressed", "tokenize", "binary", "storeOffsetWithTermVector", "storePositionWithTermVector", and "storeTermVector" to the Parameters Field.Index, Field.Store, and Field.TermVector. For writing, the FieldsWriter again maps those Parameters to the boolean values. My patched version avoids these mappings, thus we save some if-statements even while merging non-compressed fields. However, the overall merge performance does not benefit significantly in the non-compressed case.

That should be the only impact for non-compressed fields. 

Michael

> Performance improvement for merging stored, compressed fields
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-629
>                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-629
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Index
>            Reporter: Michael Busch
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: optimized_merge_compressed_fields.patch
>
>
> Hello everyone,
> currently the merging of stored, compressed fields is not optimal for the following reason: every time a stored, compressed field is being merged, the FieldsReader uncompresses the data, hence the FieldsWriter has to compress it again when it writes the merged fields data (.fdt) file. The uncompress/compress step is unneccessary and slows down the merge performance significantly.
> This patch improves the merge performance by avoiding the uncompress/compress step. In the following I give an overview of the changes I made:
>    * Added a new FieldSelectorResult constant named "LOAD_FOR_MERGE" to org.apache.lucene.document.FieldSelectorResult
>    * SegmentMerger now uses an FieldSelector to get stored fields from the FieldsReader. This FieldSelector's accept() method returns the FieldSelectorResult "LOAD_FOR_MERGE" for every field.
>    * Added a new inner class to FieldsReader named "FieldForMerge", which extends  org.apache.lucene.document.AbstractField. This class holds the field properties and its data. If a field has the FieldSelectorResult "LOAD_FOR_MERGE", then the FieldsReader creates an instance of "FieldForMerge" and does not uncompress the field's data.
>    * FieldsWriter checks if the field it is about to write is an instanceof FieldsReader.FieldForMerge. If true, then it does not compress the field data.
> To test the performance I index about 350,000 text files and store the raw text in a stored, compressed field in the lucene index. I use a merge factor of 10. The final index has a size of 366MB. After building the index, I optimize it to measure the pure merge performance.
> Here are the performance results:
> old version:
>    * Time for Indexing:  36.7 minutes
>    * Time for Optimizing: 4.6 minutes
> patched version:
>    * Time for Indexing:  20.8 minutes
>    * Time for Optimizing: 0.5 minutes
> The results show that the index build time improved by about 43%, and the optimizing step is more than 8x faster. 
> A diff of the final indexes (old and patched version) shows, that they are identical. Furthermore, all junit testcases succeeded with the patched version. 
> Regards,
>   Michael Busch

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