Why do we keep the lookup array around? The actual field value is needed to sort results from multiple searchers (multisearcher).
-Yonik On 6/1/05, John Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > In the current Lucene sorting implementation, FieldCache is used to > retrieve 2 arrays, the lookup array and the order array. The order > array at load time stores the position of the term in the lookup > array. The lookup array is already sorted because it is read in from > the index. > > My question is that since the order array contains all the > information on the order of the terms, why do we keep it around in > memory? Can we implement a SortComparator that is more memory > efficient? > > > Just and idea > > Thanks > > -John > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
