: You might think, if I only ask for the top 10 docs, don't i only read 10 field : values? But of course you don't know what docs will be returned as each search : comes in...so you have to cache them all.
Arguements have been made in the past that when you have an index large enough that the FieldCache is prohibitively expensive, and you expect the number of *matching* documents to be significantly smaller then the total number of documents, it might make sense to Sort using LazyLoaded "stored" field values ... it's a pretty radical shift from the current sorting approach, and would require some explicit work on the part of the indexing/searching code, but a patch along that lines was created a while back... https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-769 ...based on the last comment i posted in that issue, i clearly thought it showed a lot of promise, but needed cleaned up. I admittedly lost track of it as other things took priority in life. if people want to dust it off, try it out, and make comments about it's effectiveness I'm sure it could be revived. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
