I have always thought that the norms should be an interface, rather than
fixed, as there are many uses of lucene where norms are not necessary, and
the memory overhead is substantial.
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From: Arvind Srinivasan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 7:05 PM
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On Monday 23 May 2005 02:04, Arvind Srinivasan wrote:
> One Byte is Seven bits too many? - A Design suggestion
>
> Hi,
>
> The norm takes up 1 byte of storage per document per field. While this may
seem
> very small, a simple calculation shows that the IndexSearcher can consume
lots of
> memor
Robert Engels wrote:
I have always thought that the norms should be an interface, rather than
fixed, as there are many uses of lucene where norms are not necessary, and
the memory overhead is substantial.
I agree, but that's not the whole story.
If one seeks merely to avoid caching the norms i
