On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Ryan McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are the functions in NumberUtils.java general enough to move to lucene > core (or some contrib package)?
General enough perhaps, but maybe not good enough. Lucene already has a bunch of number utils already... adding yet more that aren't optimal doesn't seem to be a good idea. I think the right way is more binary oriented (perhaps possible after lucene moves to byte-counts for string lengths in the index). Then there's the idea that straight indexing of things like numbers isn't always a great idea anyway (index pollution ,etc), and a mix of indexing and stored fields that can be rapidly accessed (like payloads) is better. -Yonik
