HarperFast / HarperFast/harper
[Epic] Vector/HNSW hardening (bugs)
Open
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 89
- Forks
- 10
- Avg merge
- 2d 6h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 200
Description
Tracking epic for HNSW/vector-index correctness and performance bugs: insertion degradation, async searchLayer niceness, quantization/rerank defaults, concurrent-write transaction conflicts, and distance-ordering/ANN tuning gaps.
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_Filed by Claude (Opus 4.8), issue-backlog triage & grouping pass._
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files or tests are named in this tracking epic. Treat the listed insertion, searchLayer, quantization/rerank, transaction-conflict, and distance-ordering concerns as separate investigations; done would require each bug to have a defined fix and validation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, node.js
- Domain
- databases, performance
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100