jpountz commented on pull request #688:
URL: https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/688#issuecomment-1059806742
Thinking through this a bit more, I imagine that this is the reason why you
made this API optional. We still like the set the bar quite high to add new
APIs to PostingsEnum so
jpountz commented on pull request #688:
URL: https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/688#issuecomment-1059803598
The use-case makes sense to me, but like @msokolov I'm worried that this
could limit future implementations. For instance if we were to encode postings
as a bitset, we wouldn't