diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index ba98721f27d..6dab4b25df5 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -690,6 +690,9 @@ Optimizations
 * LUCENE-3795: Replace contrib/spatial with modules/spatial.  This includes 
   a basic spatial strategy interface.  (David Smiley, Chris Male, ryan)
     
+* LUCENE-3932: Lucene3x codec loads terms index faster, by
+  pre-allocating the packed ints array based on the .tii file size
+  (Sean Bridges via Mike McCandless)
   
 Bug fixes
 
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/MultiLevelSkipListReader.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/MultiLevelSkipListReader.java
index 7c23721f5fa..cd96af338be 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/MultiLevelSkipListReader.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/MultiLevelSkipListReader.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import java.util.Arrays;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.store.BufferedIndexInput;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.IndexInput;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.MathUtil;
 
 /**
  * This abstract class reads skip lists with multiple levels.
@@ -184,21 +185,9 @@ public abstract class MultiLevelSkipListReader {
     }
   }
   
-  /** returns x == 0 ? 0 : Math.floor(Math.log(x) / Math.log(base)) */
-  static int log(int x, int base) {
-    assert base >= 2;
-    int ret = 0;
-    long n = base; // needs to be a long to avoid overflow
-    while (x >= n) {
-      n *= base;
-      ret++;
-    }
-    return ret;
-  }
-  
   /** Loads the skip levels  */
   private void loadSkipLevels() throws IOException {
-    numberOfSkipLevels = log(docCount, skipInterval[0]);
+    numberOfSkipLevels = MathUtil.log(docCount, skipInterval[0]);
     if (numberOfSkipLevels > maxNumberOfSkipLevels) {
       numberOfSkipLevels = maxNumberOfSkipLevels;
     }
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/MultiLevelSkipListWriter.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/MultiLevelSkipListWriter.java
index 30c91385ae3..89cbbca4d39 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/MultiLevelSkipListWriter.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/MultiLevelSkipListWriter.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.store.IndexOutput;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.RAMOutputStream;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.MathUtil;
 
 /**
  * This abstract class writes skip lists with multiple levels.
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ public abstract class MultiLevelSkipListWriter {
     this.skipInterval = skipInterval;
     
     // calculate the maximum number of skip levels for this document frequency
-    numberOfSkipLevels = MultiLevelSkipListReader.log(df, skipInterval);
+    numberOfSkipLevels = MathUtil.log(df, skipInterval);
     
     // make sure it does not exceed maxSkipLevels
     if (numberOfSkipLevels > maxSkipLevels) {
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene3x/TermInfosReaderIndex.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene3x/TermInfosReaderIndex.java
index b37384c713e..d5a2f3e0750 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene3x/TermInfosReaderIndex.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene3x/TermInfosReaderIndex.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import java.util.List;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BitUtil;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.MathUtil;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.PagedBytes.PagedBytesDataInput;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.PagedBytes.PagedBytesDataOutput;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.PagedBytes;
@@ -72,7 +73,9 @@ class TermInfosReaderIndex {
     PagedBytes dataPagedBytes = new PagedBytes(estimatePageBits(initialSize));
     PagedBytesDataOutput dataOutput = dataPagedBytes.getDataOutput();
 
-    GrowableWriter indexToTerms = new GrowableWriter(4, indexSize, false);
+    final int bitEstimate = 1+MathUtil.log(tiiFileLength, 2);
+    GrowableWriter indexToTerms = new GrowableWriter(bitEstimate, indexSize, false);
+
     String currentField = null;
     List<String> fieldStrs = new ArrayList<String>();
     int fieldCounter = -1;
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/MathUtil.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/MathUtil.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5382363e6f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/MathUtil.java
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+package org.apache.lucene.util;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+public final class MathUtil {
+
+  // No instance:
+  private MathUtil() {
+  }
+
+  /** returns x == 0 ? 0 : Math.floor(Math.log(x) / Math.log(base)) */
+  public static int log(long x, int base) {
+    assert base > 1;
+    int ret = 0;
+    while (x >= base) {
+      x /= base;
+      ret++;
+    }
+    return ret;
+  }
+}