[LUCENE-10503] Preserve more significant bits of scores in WANDScorer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 9.2
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adrien Grand
• Created: 06/Apr/22 08:47
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 16:38
• Resolved: 19/Apr/22 13:38

Description

WANDScorer operates on longs to avoid accuracy issues with floating-point numbers. The current process loses more accuracy bits than it could, and making it better could help skip in a few more situations.