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    Facebook sync (May 2019) + relicense (#838) · a8118acb
    Lucas Hosseini authored
    Changelog:
    
    - changed license: BSD+Patents -> MIT
    - propagates exceptions raised in sub-indexes of IndexShards and IndexReplicas
    - support for searching several inverted lists in parallel (parallel_mode != 0)
    - better support for PQ codes where nbit != 8 or 16
    - IVFSpectralHash implementation: spectral hash codes inside an IVF
    - 6-bit per component scalar quantizer (4 and 8 bit were already supported)
    - combinations of inverted lists: HStackInvertedLists and VStackInvertedLists
    - configurable number of threads for OnDiskInvertedLists prefetching (including 0=no prefetch)
    - more test and demo code compatible with Python 3 (print with parentheses)
    - refactored benchmark code: data loading is now in a single file
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