accord-core/src/main/java/accord/utils/IndexedFoldIntersectToLong.java

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package accord.utils;

public interface IndexedFoldIntersectToLong<P1>
{
    /**
     * Apply some long->long merge function accepting a constant object parameter p1, a long parameter p2, and the prior
     * output of this function or the initial value, to some element occurring in two collections, with each collection's
     * index for the element provided as the final parameters.
     *
     * This function is used for folding over the common elements of two sorted collections.
     */
    long apply(P1 p1, long p2, long accumulate, int leftIndex, int rightIndex);
}