[LUCENE-7979] Move disjunctions to a radix heap

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adrien Grand
• Created: 26/Sep/17 16:36
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:19
• Resolved: 19/Dec/17 10:20

Description

An Elasticsearch user argued that we should look into using radix heaps in order to run disjunctions so I wanted to give it a try. I'm creating this issue to share findings. Spoiler: so far it does not seem to help but maybe I'm just doing it wrong?