[jira] [Commented] (LUCENE-4540) Allow packed ints norms

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[trunk commit] Robert Muir
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1432096

LUCENE-4540: revert

                
> Allow packed ints norms
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-4540
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4540
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: core/index
>            Reporter: Robert Muir
>            Assignee: Robert Muir
>             Fix For: 4.1, 5.0
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>         Attachments: LUCENE-4540.patch
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> I was curious what the performance would be, because it might be useful option to use packedints for norms if you have lots of fields and still want good scoring: 
> Today the smallest norm per-field-per-doc you can use is a single byte, and if you have _f_ fields with norms enabled and _n_ docs, it uses _f_ * _n_ bytes of space in RAM.
> Especially if you aren't using index-time boosting (or even if you are, but not with ridiculous values), this could be wasting a ton of RAM.
> But then I noticed there was no clean way to allow you to do this in your Similarity: its a trivial patch.

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