On 3/13/06, Kelly Vista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a note: strikes me that an alternative way to do things is to first
> identify a set of documents that have the term in them first

This is what Lucene does.
Lucene is based on an inverted index, so for any given term you can
quickly find the set of documents containing the term.  Only those
documents are scored.

-Yonik
http://incubator.apache.org/solr Solr, The Open Source Lucene Search Server

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