On Dec 22, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Ning Li wrote:
The question is, should the number of files used to store postings be customizable?
I think it ought to remain an implementation detail for now. Using multiple files is an optimization of unknown advantage. Optimizations have to work very hard to justify being put into public APIs because they constrain later refactoring and may in fact prevent better optimizations from being implemented later.
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