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Hoss Man commented on LUCENE-831:
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bq. What benefit do you see to this? Does it offer anything over the simple map 
used now?

I *think* what i ment there was that if the norm caching used the same 
functionality then it could simplify the code, and norms would be optimized in 
the reopen case as well ... plus custom Cache Impls could report stats on norm 
usage (just like anything else) so people could  see when norms were getting 
used for fields they didn't expect them to be.

But as i've said before ... most of my early comments were pie in the sky 
theoretical brainstorming comments -- don't read too much into them if they 
don't really make sense.

> 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
>             Fix For: 3.0
>
>         Attachments: fieldcache-overhaul.032208.diff, 
> fieldcache-overhaul.diff, fieldcache-overhaul.diff, 
> LUCENE-831.03.28.2008.diff, LUCENE-831.03.30.2008.diff, 
> LUCENE-831.03.31.2008.diff, LUCENE-831.patch, LUCENE-831.patch
>
>
> 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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