Summary:
This diff streamlines the code that collects results for brute force distance computations for the L2 / IP and range search / knn search combinations.
It introduces a `ResultHandler` template class that abstracts what happens with the computed distances and ids. In addition to the heap result handler and the range search result handler, it introduces a reservoir result handler that improves the search speed for large k (>=100).
Benchmark results (https://fb.quip.com/y0g1ACLEqJXx#OCaACA2Gm45) show that on small datasets (10k) search is 10-50% faster (improvements are larger for small k). There is room for improvement in the reservoir implementation, whose implementation is quite naive currently, but the diff is already useful in its current form.
Experiments on precomputed db vector norms for L2 distance computations were not very concluding performance-wise, so the implementation is removed from IndexFlatL2.
This diff also removes IndexL2BaseShift, which was never used.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/pull/1502
Test Plan:
```
buck test //faiss/tests/:test_product_quantizer
buck test //faiss/tests/:test_index -- TestIndexFlat
```
Reviewed By: wickedfoo
Differential Revision: D24705464
Pulled By: mdouze
fbshipit-source-id: 270e10b19f3c89ed7b607ec30549aca0ac5027fe
Chengqi Deng
Matthijs Douze