StopFilter: pack ASCII stop words into longs for faster lookup

lucene/CHANGES.txt

@@ -352,6 +352,9 @@ Optimizations
 * GITHUB#16370: Sort two-phase iterators by matchCost in DenseConjunctionBulkScorer.
   (Alan Woodward)
 
+* GITHUB#16381: StopFilter: pack short ASCII stop words into longs for LongHashSet lookup,
+  avoiding char[] pointer chasing. 2.6x faster lookups on English stop words. (Costin Leau)
+
 Bug Fixes
 ---------------------
 * GITHUB#16350: Disable bulk-scoring in monitor queries. (Alan Woodward)

lucene/benchmark-jmh/src/java/org/apache/lucene/benchmark/jmh/StopFilterBenchmark.java

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
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+package org.apache.lucene.benchmark.jmh;
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Random;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.CharArraySet;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Benchmark;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.BenchmarkMode;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Fork;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Level;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Measurement;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Mode;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.OutputTimeUnit;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Param;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Scope;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Setup;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.State;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Warmup;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.infra.Blackhole;
+
+@BenchmarkMode(Mode.Throughput)
+@OutputTimeUnit(TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS)
+@State(Scope.Thread)
+@Warmup(iterations = 3, time = 1)
+@Measurement(iterations = 5, time = 1)
+@Fork(1)
+public class StopFilterBenchmark {
+
+  private static final List<String> ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS =
+      Arrays.asList(
+          "a", "an", "and", "are", "as", "at", "be", "but", "by", "for", "if", "in", "into", "is",
+          "it", "no", "not", "of", "on", "or", "such", "that", "the", "their", "then", "there",
+          "these", "they", "this", "to", "was", "will", "with");
+
+  private static final String[] CONTENT_WORDS = {
+    "lucene", "search", "index", "query", "document", "field", "segment", "merge", "filter",
+    "score", "boost", "term", "token", "analyzer", "reader", "writer", "directory", "codec",
+    "postings", "collection", "virtual"
+  };
+
+  @Param({"english", "technical"})
+  String textType;
+
+  private CharArraySet baseline;
+  private CharArraySet packed;
+  private char[][] lookupTokens;
+  private int[] lookupLengths;
+
+  @Setup(Level.Trial)
+  public void setup() {
+    baseline = new CharArraySet(ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS, true, 0);
+    packed = new CharArraySet(ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS, true);
+
+    Random rng = new Random(42);
+    int tokenCount = 2000;
+    lookupTokens = new char[tokenCount][];
+    lookupLengths = new int[tokenCount];
+    double stopWordRatio = textType.equals("english") ? 0.50 : 0.20;
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < tokenCount; i++) {
+      if (rng.nextDouble() < stopWordRatio) {
+        String sw = ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS.get(rng.nextInt(ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS.size()));
+        lookupTokens[i] = sw.toCharArray();
+      } else {
+        String cw = CONTENT_WORDS[rng.nextInt(CONTENT_WORDS.length)];
+        lookupTokens[i] = cw.toCharArray();
+      }
+      lookupLengths[i] = lookupTokens[i].length;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Benchmark
+  public void baseline(Blackhole bh) {
+    for (int i = 0; i < lookupTokens.length; i++) {
+      bh.consume(baseline.contains(lookupTokens[i], 0, lookupLengths[i]));
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Benchmark
+  public void packed(Blackhole bh) {
+    for (int i = 0; i < lookupTokens.length; i++) {
+      bh.consume(packed.contains(lookupTokens[i], 0, lookupLengths[i]));
+    }
+  }
+}

lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/CharArrayMap.java

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
+import org.apache.lucene.internal.hppc.LongHashSet;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.CharsRef;
 
 /**
@@ -36,8 +37,13 @@ public class CharArrayMap<V> extends AbstractMap<Object, V> {
   private static final CharArrayMap<?> EMPTY_MAP = new EmptyCharArrayMap<>();
 
   private static final int INIT_SIZE = 8;
+  static final int DEFAULT_MAX_CACHED_LENGTH = 8;
+
   private final boolean ignoreCase;
+  private final int maxCachedLength;
   private int count;
+  private LongHashSet packedKeys;
+
   // package private because used in CharArraySet's non Set-conform CharArraySetIterator
   char[][] keys;
   // package private because used in CharArraySet's non Set-conform CharArraySetIterator
@@ -52,7 +58,23 @@ public class CharArrayMap<V> extends AbstractMap<Object, V> {
    */
   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
   public CharArrayMap(int startSize, boolean ignoreCase) {
+    this(startSize, ignoreCase, DEFAULT_MAX_CACHED_LENGTH);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Create map with enough capacity to hold startSize terms. When {@code ignoreCase} is true, keys
+   * up to {@code maxCachedLength} ASCII characters are cached in a compact representation for
+   * faster lookup, avoiding per-character case conversion overhead. Set to 0 to disable.
+   *
+   * @param startSize the initial capacity
+   * @param ignoreCase <code>false</code> if and only if the set should be case sensitive otherwise
+   *     <code>true</code>.
+   * @param maxCachedLength maximum ASCII length to cache for faster lookup (0 to disable)
+   */
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  public CharArrayMap(int startSize, boolean ignoreCase, int maxCachedLength) {
     this.ignoreCase = ignoreCase;
+    this.maxCachedLength = maxCachedLength;
     int size = INIT_SIZE;
     while (startSize + (startSize >> 2) > size) {
       size <<= 1;
@@ -78,7 +100,9 @@ private CharArrayMap(CharArrayMap<V> toCopy) {
     this.keys = toCopy.keys;
     this.values = toCopy.values;
     this.ignoreCase = toCopy.ignoreCase;
+    this.maxCachedLength = toCopy.maxCachedLength;
     this.count = toCopy.count;
+    this.packedKeys = toCopy.packedKeys;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -88,6 +112,7 @@ private CharArrayMap(CharArrayMap<V> toCopy) {
   @Override
   public void clear() {
     count = 0;
+    packedKeys = null;
     Arrays.fill(keys, null);
     Arrays.fill(values, null);
   }
@@ -97,11 +122,19 @@ public void clear() {
    * {@link #keySet()}
    */
   public boolean containsKey(char[] text, int off, int len) {
+    if (packedKeys != null) {
+      long packed = pack(text, off, len, ignoreCase);
+      return packed >= 0 && packedKeys.contains(packed);
+    }
     return keys[getSlot(text, off, len)] != null;
   }
 
   /** true if the <code>CharSequence</code> is in the {@link #keySet()} */
   public boolean containsKey(CharSequence cs) {
+    if (packedKeys != null) {
+      long packed = packCharSequence(cs, ignoreCase);
+      return packed >= 0 && packedKeys.contains(packed);
+    }
     return keys[getSlot(cs)] != null;
   }
 
@@ -118,11 +151,19 @@ public boolean containsKey(Object o) {
    * <code>off</code>
    */
   public V get(char[] text, int off, int len) {
+    if (packedKeys != null) {
+      long packed = pack(text, off, len, ignoreCase);
+      if (packed < 0 || !packedKeys.contains(packed)) return null;
+    }
     return values[getSlot(text, off, len)];
   }
 
   /** returns the value of the mapping of the chars inside this {@code CharSequence} */
   public V get(CharSequence cs) {
+    if (packedKeys != null) {
+      long packed = packCharSequence(cs, ignoreCase);
+      if (packed < 0 || !packedKeys.contains(packed)) return null;
+    }
     return values[getSlot(cs)];
   }
 
@@ -191,6 +232,7 @@ public V put(char[] text, V value) {
     if (ignoreCase) {
       CharacterUtils.toLowerCase(text, 0, text.length);
     }
+    packedKeys = null;
     int slot = getSlot(text, 0, text.length);
     if (keys[slot] != null) {
       final V oldValue = values[slot];
@@ -297,6 +339,46 @@ private int getHashCode(CharSequence text) {
     return code;
   }
 
+  void tryBuildPackedKeys() {
+    if (!ignoreCase || maxCachedLength == 0) return;
+    LongHashSet set = new LongHashSet(count);
+    for (char[] key : keys) {
+      if (key == null) continue;
+      long packed = pack(key, 0, key.length, false);
+      if (packed < 0) {
+        packedKeys = null;
+        return;
+      }
+      set.add(packed);
+    }
+    packedKeys = set;
+  }
+
+  private long pack(char[] buf, int off, int len, boolean toLowerCase) {
+    if (len > maxCachedLength || len == 0) return -1;
+    long packed = 0;
+    for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+      char c = buf[off + i];
+      if (c > 127) return -1;
+      if (toLowerCase && c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') c = (char) (c | 0x20);
+      packed = (packed << 8) | c;
+    }
+    return packed;
+  }
+
+  private long packCharSequence(CharSequence cs, boolean toLowerCase) {
+    int len = cs.length();
+    if (len > maxCachedLength || len == 0) return -1;
+    long packed = 0;
+    for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+      char c = cs.charAt(i);
+      if (c > 127) return -1;
+      if (toLowerCase && c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') c = (char) (c | 0x20);
+      packed = (packed << 8) | c;
+    }
+    return packed;
+  }
+
   @Override
   public V remove(Object key) {
     throw new UnsupportedOperationException();

lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/CharArraySet.java

@@ -61,8 +61,21 @@ public CharArraySet(int startSize, boolean ignoreCase) {
    *     <code>true</code>.
    */
   public CharArraySet(Collection<?> c, boolean ignoreCase) {
-    this(c.size(), ignoreCase);
+    this(c, ignoreCase, CharArrayMap.DEFAULT_MAX_CACHED_LENGTH);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Creates a set from a Collection of objects.
+   *
+   * @param c a collection whose elements to be placed into the set
+   * @param ignoreCase <code>false</code> if and only if the set should be case sensitive otherwise
+   *     <code>true</code>.
+   * @param maxCachedLength maximum ASCII length to cache for faster lookup (0 to disable)
+   */
+  public CharArraySet(Collection<?> c, boolean ignoreCase, int maxCachedLength) {
+    this(new CharArrayMap<>(c.size(), ignoreCase, maxCachedLength));
     addAll(c);
+    map.tryBuildPackedKeys();
   }
 
   /**