Here's my patch for the indexing and IndexReader side of things. Works like a charm.
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-448 This doesn't yet include performance enhancements to scorers when norms aren't included, but I first wanted to make sure things were completely backward compatible with custom queries and scorers that we don't have access to. -Yonik Now hiring -- http://tinyurl.com/7m67g On 10/7/05, Yonik Seeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm approaching it the same as term vectors... make the norms optional on > a per field basis. > My first cut is returning a dummy norm array filled in with the equiv of > 1.0f so I didn't have to go modify all the queries/weights/scorers that > retrieve the norms. For best performance, those scorers should be modified > to handle null. >
