On 11/16/05, Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could instead use a byte[maxDoc] and encode/decode floats as you > store and read them, to use a lot less RAM.
Hmmm, very interesting idea. Less than one decimal digit of precision might be hard to swallow when you have to add scores together though: smallfloat(score1) + smallfloat(score2) + smallfloat(score3) Do you think that the 5/3 exponent/mantissa split is right for this, or would a 4/4 be better? -Yonik Now hiring -- http://forms.cnet.com/slink?231706 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
