I just started learning Lucene HNSW source code last months. I find the most effective way is to start with the testcases, set debugging break points in the code you're interested in, and walk through the code
Regards MyCoy On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 9:24 PM Rahul Goswami <rahul196...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I have been working with Lucene and Solr for quite some time and have a > good understanding of a lot of moving parts at the code level. However I > wish to learn Lucene internals from the ground up and want to familiarize > myself with all the dirty details. I would like to know what would be the > best way to go about it. > > To kick things off, I have been thinking about picking up “Lucene in > Action”, but have been hesitant (and possibly wrongly) since it is based on > Lucene 3.0 and we have come a long way since then. To give an example of > the level of detail I wish to learn (among other things) would be what > parts of a segment (.tim, .tip, etc) get loaded in memory at search time, > which part uses finite state machines and why, etc > > I would really appreciate any thoughts/inputs on how I can go about this. > Thanks in advance! > > Regards, > Rahul >
