I'm studying the BytesRefHash class, a mapping from bytes to a generated ID for the bytes.
In the BytesRefHash class, there are two levels of reference: (1) ids[bytes' hash code] ---> count, where count is the self-incremental size of the this hashmap. (2) bytesStart[count] ---> offset in the ByteBlockPool, where the original bytes are stored. My question is, can the above two references be collapsed into one, as follows ? ids[bytes' hash code] ---> offset in the ByteBlockPool. I've searched the code, and cannot grab an idea what's the benefit to have another indirection via bytesStart. p.s. I am a newbie. Should basic questions about Lucene source code be asked in this mail list dev@lucene.apache.org or elsewhere ? Yijian Huang
