About the author
Chris is a committer and PMC member on the Apache Lucene Project, as well as a committer and reviewer in OpenJDK.
Author’s articles
January 3, 2025
Lucene Wrapped 2024
2024 has been another major year for Apache Lucene. In this blog, we’ll explore the key highlights.
December 4, 2024
Smokin' fast BBQ with hardware accelerated SIMD instructions
How we optimized vector comparisons in BBQ with hardware accelerated SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instructions.
April 17, 2024
Making Lucene faster with vectorization and FFI/madvise
Discover how modern Java features, including vectorization and FFI/madvise, are speeding up Lucene's performance.
February 23, 2024
Optimizing vector distance computations with the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API
Learn how to optimize vector distance computations using the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API to achieve faster performance.
November 20, 2023
Understanding fused multiply-add (FMA) within vector similarity computations in Lucene
Learn how to use fused multiply-add (FMA) within vector similarity computations in Lucene and discover how FMA can improve performance.