i just wanted to draw peoples attention to a Lucene-Java patch i've been experimenting with to change the way the internal FieldCaches work...
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-831 ...this might be of special itnerest to Solr developers because it would let us change the low levels of the FieldCache (used by sorting and faceting) so that it could be backed by a SolrCache and autoWarmed when new IndexReaders are opened. (this isn't in the patch) people who are interested in this possibility, but don't normally follow the Java-Lucene lists may want to "watch" that issue (and of course: i'd love it if people read/tested the patch, and gave feedback) -Hoss
