[LUCENE-8976] Use exact distance between point and bounding rectangle in FloatPointNearestNeighbor

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 8.3
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Ignacio Vera
• Reporter: Ignacio Vera
• Created: 11/Sep/19 08:33
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:50
• Resolved: 12/Sep/19 05:50

Description

Calculating minimum distance between a point and a bounding rectangle can be computed quite efficiently. This allows the FloatPointNearestNeighbor algorithm to discard inner nodes based on that calculation.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #874