Re: [bailey-developers] lattice master

[Yonik S. <yo...@ap...>]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Doug Cutting <cu...@ap...> wrote:
> Yonik Seeley wrote:
>  > It depends on the documents I guess... if they are big, putting them
>  > in the index can be a burden because they get copied on every segment
>  > merge, and loading the other stored fields takes longer.
>
>  Didn't Mike change that?  Segments can now point to fields in a separate
>  file, according to:
>
>  http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/fileformats.html#Segments%20File
>
>  I think that's so that they don't have to be copied with every merge.

Ah right... they won't be copied at all for a single indexing session.
So full index builds won't be impacted much, just merges due to
incremental adds/changes.

-Yonik