This functionality fell into disrepair some while ago. It's supposed to allow non-mandatory search terms that boost the ranking if they are present in the document.
The change set cleans up the data model for the term-level data. This used to contain a bunch of fields with document-level metadata. This data-duplication means a larger memory footprint and worse memory locality.
The ranking code is also modified to not accept SearchResultKeywordScores, but rather CompiledQueryLong and CqDataInts containing only the term metadata and the frequency information needed for ranking. This is again an effort to improve memory locality.
The sign of the counter is used to indicate whether a term has appeared as title. Until it's seen in the title, it's provisionally saved as a negative count.
We no longer break the query into "sets" of search terms and need to adapt the code to not use this assumption.
For the API service, we'll simulate the old behavior to keep the API stable.
For the search service, we'll introduce a new way of calculating positions through tree aggregation.
The code would always re-initialize the static ngramLexicon and rdrposTagger fields with new instances even if they were already instantiated, leading to a ton of unnecessary RAM allocation.
The modified behavior checks for nullity before creating a new instance.
Seems to work, tests are green and initial testing finds no errors. Still a bit untested, committing WIP as-is because it would suck to lose weeks of work due to a drive failure or something.
This addresses the relatively common case where the graph consists of two segments, such as x y, z w; in this case we want an output like (x_y) (z w | z_w) | x y (z_w). The generated output does somewhat pessimize a few other cases, but this one is arguably more important.
The previous behavior would listen to too many changes, and based on zookeeper and not curator assumptions about behavior, add an additional monitor on each invocation of each monitor, (which always trigger on service state changes), leading to each monitor re-registering and effectively doubling monitors in numbers whenever a service stopped or started, which in turn meant a lot of bizarre thrashing behavior even on changes in services that don't explicitly talk to each other.
This re-registering behavior is no longer done.
