On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Neeraj Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It means before Iteration Lucene has already spent time and memory in > finding all the 50k documents and sorting them
Lucene uses a priority queue to only sort the top results, not all matching results. To more precisely specify the top "n" docs, see the expert level search methods that return TopDocs. -Yonik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
