Paul Masurel

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@snakeztc Could you lead the development of such a feature? Also DeepCT and dense vector nearest neighbor are very different problem. Which one do you need? This is a very...

Is the slope actually useful in the blockwise linear thing or frame of reference sufficient for blocks of 512 elements? An alternative could be for instance to have a simpler...

I'm ok with this change if you think it will make our life easier. Assuming we change the codec of the posting list... Do we express that with as many...

Should we postpone this for the moment then?

Did you have a look at @halvorboe 's work on #1241

A couple of remarks. If I recall correctly, the smallest wasm tantivy build I managed to get so far was 900KB and that involved a lot of cheating & trimming....

According to [this doc](https://github.com/CraneStation/wasmtime/blob/master/docs/WASI-rationale.md) Mmap is not likely to be part of the standardized WASI any time soon. That's a bummer. On tantivy side, that will mean some heavy changes...

@urbien This part is probably more relevant. https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-libc/blob/3e9892fc41dd83fa66f192f963f54c72fb8321c1/libc-bottom-half/mman/mman.c So the WASI-libc does add support for mmap, but it will read and load the entire file in anonymous memory. That's kind...

@ngbrown Do you have a specific use case?

@ngbrown searching static website is common, but they are usually small enough that javascript libraries do ok. I have compiled tantivy to WASM before, but the resulting file is around...