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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-831:
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One question here: should we switch to a method call, instead of a
straight array, to retrieve a cached value for a doc?
If we did that, then MultiSearchers would forward the request to the
right IndexReader.
The benefit then is that reopen() of a reader would not have to
allocate & bulk copy massive arrays when updating the caches. It
would keep the cost of reopen closer to the size of the new segments.
And this way the old reader & the new one would not double-allocate
the RAM required to hold the common parts of the cache.
We could always still provide a "give me the full array" fallback if
people really wanted that (and were willing to accept the cost).
> Complete overhaul of FieldCache API/Implementation
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: LUCENE-831
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-831
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Search
> Reporter: Hoss Man
> Assignee: Michael Busch
> Fix For: 2.4
>
> Attachments: fieldcache-overhaul.032208.diff,
> fieldcache-overhaul.diff, fieldcache-overhaul.diff
>
>
> Motivation:
> 1) Complete overhaul the API/implementation of "FieldCache" type things...
> a) eliminate global static map keyed on IndexReader (thus
> eliminating synch block between completley independent IndexReaders)
> b) allow more customization of cache management (ie: use
> expiration/replacement strategies, disk backed caches, etc)
> c) allow people to define custom cache data logic (ie: custom
> parsers, complex datatypes, etc... anything tied to a reader)
> d) allow people to inspect what's in a cache (list of CacheKeys) for
> an IndexReader so a new IndexReader can be likewise warmed.
> e) Lend support for smarter cache management if/when
> IndexReader.reopen is added (merging of cached data from subReaders).
> 2) Provide backwards compatibility to support existing FieldCache API with
> the new implementation, so there is no redundent caching as client code
> migrades to new API.
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