[LUCENE-3359] Option for no Front Encoding of term compression

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 3.3
• Component/s: core/index
• Labels: Encoding Front compression
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gang Luo
• Created: 03/Aug/11 19:22
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:54
• Resolved: 03/Aug/11 20:34

Description

Average length of a word in the English language is 5.1 , so Front Encoding of term compression in index is meaningful. But average length of a word in the Chinese language is 2.3. No need Front Encoding for chinese document index?