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It blows my mind that after a decade or so of dominance, they don't have a fast 'fail and remove from results' implemented.
by silisili 4y ago
It blows my mind that after a decade or so of dominance, they don't have a fast 'fail and remove from results' implemented.
- superjan 4y agoOr they do have handling for errors and the extra code did not handle all types of failure modes and added new failure modes on its own.
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- scarab92 4y agoOf course they do, every large search implementation has done that if a node times out, since the 90's. Something unusual about this query evidently triggered a bug in the somewhere. We will probably never know the specifics.
- loa_in_ 4y agoThat's a great way to remove work for engineers, bit it's not a solution