From 208760307f0c93fc557bad522c8ff2e26fa78477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yonik Seeley <yonik@apache.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:14:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Change Similarity to use SmallFloat for norm encoding

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/trunk@349073 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 CHANGES.txt                                     | 5 +++++
 src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/SmallFloat.java | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 628645a0023..20c3ca70cf1 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -356,6 +356,11 @@ Optimizations
     and sorting the first time on a field.
     (Yonik Seeley, LUCENE-454)
 
+11. Optimized and generalized 32 bit floating point to byte
+    (custom 8 bit floating point) conversions.  Increased the speed of
+    Similarity.encodeNorm() anywhere from 10% to 250%, depending on the JVM.
+    (Yonik Seeley, LUCENE-467)
+
 Infrastructure
 
  1. Lucene's source code repository has converted from CVS to
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/SmallFloat.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/SmallFloat.java
index 462cae99761..3e71e6e3d95 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/SmallFloat.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/SmallFloat.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ package org.apache.lucene.util;
  * @author yonik
  * @version $Id$
  */
-class SmallFloat {
+public class SmallFloat {
 
   /** Converts a 32 bit float to an 8 bit float.
    * <br>Values less than zero are all mapped to zero.