Thanks Ian.. I am reading lucene code to understand how it works.
It seems that lucene 4 will be implementing docValues, that will contain a
field value per doc in a data structure that will be easily used during the
scoring process. This data structure will also allow for a lot of updates
to happ
Certainly lots of questions, and I can't answer most of them, but a
couple of comments/opinions.
Collecting all docs will potentially use a lot of memory but isn't
necessarily excessively slow. It's generally only doing something
like reading field values for all docs that can be prohibitively sl
