Hello all, Sorry if this is offtopic or already discussed/documented somewhere.
Regarding lucene 2.9.1 javadoc: In Searcher the method "TopDocs search(Query query, int n)" says "Finds the top n hits for query." However if I do a search(someQuery, 100) which gets me 1000 results all results are available, so it doesn't actually limit the hit count to N. What I saw from the code is that the N is actually the initial size of a PriorityQueue, but which gets expanded dynamically. So actually the N doesn't limit anything. (My initial case, although I might be the only one doing that, was that I wanted all results so I put an absurdly large number as N. All I got of course was slower searches because a bigger priority queue had to be initialized). - Cristian Vat
