Hi,
In ferret, and especially when using acts_as_ferret, it is easy to specify many fields. What is the cost of using a lot of fields from a performance perspective? Is each field searched separately, or are they combined together in the inverted index. As an extreme example, if I made every word in my documents a separate field (so the first word in each document was field 1 and the second word was field 2, etc) would this be significantly less efficient than treating the entire document as a single field? I am not doing something quite as bad as this hypothetical example, but I am investigating different ways to organize some data. Thanks, Chris.
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