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
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.