Making well reasoned arguments about specific patches would be helpful. Also, the complexity vs speed trade-offs are different for core library like Lucene where performance is one of the primary features.
-Yonik On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:01 PM, robert engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but I think this is an excellent article > that the Lucene development team might find helpful. > > I have often been dismayed at complex code being written to achieve > "negligible" performance improvements. Most often, a micro benchmark is used > to justify the change. > > Worse, spending effort putting hacks into Lucene when they are clearly JVM > bugs. I think it would be a far better use of resources to lobby Sun/others > through the appropriate channels to get the underlying issue corrected. > > I know that there have been many performance improvements in Lucene as of > late, but almost all of these have been algorithm changes - not obscure bit > twiddling... > > Anyway, it is at > http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/community/pepperdine_qa.html > > Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
