Doug Cutting wrote: > > Therefore, a "semi compound" segment file can be defined, that would be > > made of 4 files (instead of 1): > > - File 0: .fdx .tis .tvx > > - File 1: .fdt .tii .tvd > > - File 2: .frq .tvf > > - File 3: .fnm .prx .fN > > I think this is a promising direction. Perhaps instead of adding a > third index format, we can significantly improve the non-compound format > without too much effort. For example, simply writing all the norms into > a single file could have a large impact on total file handles and would > be a rather simple change. We could start with that, then see if there > are further incremental improvements to be had.
We can start with that - at least it would set the number of segment files to a fixed number - 11 - currently it depends on the number of fields with norms. One advantage of keeping the a plain non-compound format is educational / debugging - it is often helpful to actually see the files being created on disk. (Although, just concatenating all norms to a single file is simple enough in that regard.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
