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  1. Lucene - Core
  2. LUCENE-5752

Explore light weight Automaton replacement

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • 4.10, 6.0
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    • New

    Description

      This effort started with the patch on LUCENE-4556, to create a "light
      weight" replacement for the current object-heavy Automaton class
      (which creates separate State and Transition objects).

      I took that initial patch much further, and cutover most places in
      Lucene that use Automaton to LightAutomaton. Tests pass.

      The core idea of LightAutomaton is all states are ints, and you build
      up the automaton under the restriction that you add all outgoing
      transitions one state at a time. This worked well for most
      operations, but for some (e.g. UTF32ToUTF8!!) it was harder, so I also
      added a separate builder to add transitions in any order and then in
      the end they are sorted and added to the real automaton.

      If this is successful I think we should just replace the current
      Automaton with LightAutomaton; right now they both exist in my current
      patch...

      This is very much a work in progress, and I'm not sure the
      restrictions the API imposes are "reasonable" (some algos got uglier).
      But I think it's at least worth exploring/iterating... I'll make a branch and
      commit my current state.

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        1. LUCENE-5752.patch
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          Michael McCandless
        2. LUCENE-5752.patch
          510 kB
          Michael McCandless

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