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Michael Sokolov commented on LUCENE-8920:
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> Here is a proposal for the heuristic to select the encoding of a FST node.

I like the overall structure of the proposal. I'm unsure about the proposed 
levels. For example, I believe the current FST does not have D1=0.66 rather it 
is 0.25. I'm not saying that's the _right_ choice, merely that I think it is 
what we have on master, and the discrepancy here makes me wonder if I'm reading 
the proposal correctly. How did you come up with the 0.66 number?

> Reduce size of FSTs due to use of direct-addressing encoding 
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-8920
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8920
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Michael Sokolov
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 8.3
>
>          Time Spent: 1h 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Some data can lead to worst-case ~4x RAM usage due to this optimization. 
> Several ideas were suggested to combat this on the mailing list:
> bq. I think we can improve thesituation here by tracking, per-FST instance, 
> the size increase we're seeing while building (or perhaps do a preliminary 
> pass before building) in order to decide whether to apply the encoding. 
> bq. we could also make the encoding a bit more efficient. For instance I 
> noticed that arc metadata is pretty large in some cases (in the 10-20 bytes) 
> which make gaps very costly. Associating each label with a dense id and 
> having an intermediate lookup, ie. lookup label -> id and then id->arc offset 
> instead of doing label->arc directly could save a lot of space in some cases? 
> Also it seems that we are repeating the label in the arc metadata when 
> array-with-gaps is used, even though it shouldn't be necessary since the 
> label is implicit from the address?



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