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Robert Muir resolved LUCENE-4540. --------------------------------- Resolution: Fixed Fix Version/s: 5.0 4.1 > Allow packed ints norms > ----------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-4540 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4540 > Project: Lucene - Core > Issue Type: Task > Components: core/index > Reporter: Robert Muir > Fix For: 4.1, 5.0 > > Attachments: LUCENE-4540.patch > > > I was curious what the performance would be, because it might be useful > option to use packedints for norms if you have lots of fields and still want > good scoring: > Today the smallest norm per-field-per-doc you can use is a single byte, and > if you have _f_ fields with norms enabled and _n_ docs, it uses _f_ * _n_ > bytes of space in RAM. > Especially if you aren't using index-time boosting (or even if you are, but > not with ridiculous values), this could be wasting a ton of RAM. > But then I noticed there was no clean way to allow you to do this in your > Similarity: its a trivial patch. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org