[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (LUCENE-1604) Stop creating huge arrays to represent the absense of field norms

["Shon Vella (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Shon Vella edited comment on LUCENE-1604 at 4/16/09 7:16 AM:
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Setting disableFakeNorms transitively isn't really needed because MultiSegmentReader doesn't make any calls to the subreaders that would cause it to create it's own fake norms. We probably ought to preserve the flag on clone() and reopen() though, which is going to be a little messy because IndexReader doesn't really implement either so it would have to be handled at the root of each concrete class hierarchy that does implement those. Any thoughts on whether we need this or not?

      was (Author: svella):
    Setting disableFakeNorms transitively isn't really needed because MultiSegmentReader doesn't make any calls to the subreaders that would cause it to create it's own fake norms. We probably ought to preserve the flag on clone() and reopen() though, which is going to be a little messy because IndexReader doesn't really implement either so it would have to be handled at the root of each concrete class hierarchy that does implement those. Any thoughts?
  
> Stop creating huge arrays to represent the absense of field norms
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1604
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1604
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Index
>    Affects Versions: 2.9
>            Reporter: Shon Vella
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.9
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-1604.patch, LUCENE-1604.patch
>
>
> Creating and keeping around huge arrays that hold a constant value is very inefficient both from a heap usage standpoint and from a localility of reference standpoint. It would be much more efficient to use null to represent a missing norms table.

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