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  1. Lucene - Core
  2. LUCENE-4839

Sorter API: Use TimSort to sort doc IDs and postings lists

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Resolved
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Fixed
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      TimSort (http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Objects/listsort.txt, used by python and Java's Arrays.sort(Object[]) in particular) is a sorting algorithm that performs very well on partially-sorted data. Indeed, with TimSort, sorting an array which is in reverse order or a finite concatenation of sorted arrays is a linear operation (instead of O(n ln)).

      The sorter API could benefit from this algorithm when using Sorter.REVERSE_DOCS or merging several sorted readers for example.

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        1. LUCENE-4839.patch
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          Adrien Grand
        2. LUCENE-4839.patch
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          Adrien Grand

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