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Shon Vella commented on LUCENE-1604: ------------------------------------ This is similar to LUCENE-505, but applies to all readers, not just MultiReader and proposes a different, less complex solution. Attaching preliminary patch. > Stop creating huge arrays to represent the absense of field norms > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-1604 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1604 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Index > Affects Versions: 2.9 > Reporter: Shon Vella > Priority: Minor > Attachments: LUCENE-1604.patch > > > Creating and keeping around huge arrays that hold a constant value is very > inefficient both from a heap usage standpoint and from a localility of > reference standpoint. It would be much more efficient to use null to > represent a missing norms table. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org