On 12/4/06, Otis Gospodnetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was looking at NO_NORMS, but then spotted fakeNorms in SegmentReader. From a quick look it seems that even if NO_NORMS is used on a field, these fakeNorms get generated. (see the patch in http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-448 ). Why is that? Why are fake norms needed,
fakeNorms are needed for backward compatability when someone calls IndexReader.norms()
aren't we actually not saving the memory that NO_NORMS should save?
1) fakeNorms is per-reader and shared between all fields that have omitNorms=true 2) fakeNorms is allocated on-demand... so if no one calls norms() on a field that has no norms, then it will never be allocated. -Yonik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
