The problem is that if you want only docs 200-250, how do you know whether
any particular
doc will wind up in in positions 0-199? You process a doc and find it's
score is X. That has
no relation to the score of the _next_ doc you score. Or the previous one
for that matter.
So to find the doc in
From memory: there are different methods in SolrIndexSearcher for reason. It
has to do with paging and sorting. Whenever you sort on a simple field, you
can easily start at a specific offset. The problem with sorting on score, is
that score has to be calculated for all documents matching query.
