[LUCENE-6021] Make FixedBitSet and SparseFixedBitSet share a wider common interface

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Adrien Grand
• Reporter: Adrien Grand
• Created: 23/Oct/14 14:24
• Updated: 23/Feb/15 05:01
• Resolved: 27/Oct/14 12:47

Description

Today, the only common interfaces that these two classes share are Bits and Accountable. I would like to add a BitSet base class that would be both extended by FixedBitSet and SparseFixedBitSet. The idea is to share more code between these two impls and make them interchangeable for more use-cases so that we could just use one or the other based on the density of the data that we are working on.