Optimizations to TopScoreDocCollector and TopFieldCollector
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                 Key: LUCENE-1593
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1593
             Project: Lucene - Java
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Search
            Reporter: Shai Erera
             Fix For: 2.9


This is a spin-off of LUCENE-1575 and proposes to optimize TSDC and TFC code to 
remove unnecessary checks. The plan is:
# Ensure that IndexSearcher returns segements in increasing doc Id order, 
instead of numDocs().
# Change TSDC and TFC's code to not use the doc id as a tie breaker. New docs 
will always have larger ids and therefore cannot compete.
# Pre-populate HitQueue with sentinel values in TSDC (score = Float.NEG_INF) 
and remove the check if reusableSD == null.
# Also move to use "changing top" and then call adjustTop(), in case we update 
the queue.
# some methods in Sort explicitly add SortField.FIELD_DOC as a "tie breaker" 
for the last SortField. But, doing so should not be necessary (since we already 
break ties by docID), and is in fact less efficient (once the above 
optimization is in).
# Investigate PQ - can we deprecate insert() and have only 
insertWithOverflow()? Add a addDummyObjects method which will populate the 
queue without "arranging" it, just store the objects in the array (this can be 
used to pre-populate sentinel values)?

I will post a patch as well as some perf measurements as soon as I have them.

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