> I think having async IO will be great, though I wonder how we would > change Lucene to take advantage of it. It ought to gain us > concurrency (eg we can score last chunk while we have an io request > out to retrieve next chunk, of term docs / positions / etc.). A presentation given above references Big*Buffers, including MappedBigByteBuffer, which differ from their not-so-Big counterparts in using long sizes/offsets. That means (woo-hoo!) a way better MMapDirectory.
Everything else there is totally irrelevant to lucene. Okay, maybe atomic file moves, but that part of Directory is long time deprecated :) -- Kirill Zakharenko/Кирилл Захаренко (ear...@gmail.com) Home / Mobile: +7 (495) 683-567-4 / +7 (903) 5-888-423 ICQ: 104465785 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
