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  1. Lucene - Core
  2. LUCENE-2426

change sort order to binary order

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 3.1
    • 4.0-ALPHA
    • core/index
    • None
    • New

    Description

      Since flexible indexing, terms are now represented as byte[], but for backwards compatibility reasons, they are not sorted as byte[], but instead as if they were char[].

      I think its time to look at sorting terms as byte[]... this would yield the following improvements:

      • terms are more opaque by default, they are byte[] and sort as byte[]. I think this would make lucene friendlier to customizations.
      • numerics and collation are then free to use their own encoding (full byte) rather than avoiding the use of certain bits to remain compatible with char[] sort order.
      • automaton gets simpler because as in LUCENE-2265, it uses byte[] too, and has special hacks because terms are sorted as char[]

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        1. LUCENE-2426.patch
          47 kB
          Michael McCandless
        2. LUCENE-2426_automaton.patch
          7 kB
          Robert Muir
        3. LUCENE-2426.patch
          71 kB
          Michael McCandless

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