[Lucene-java Wiki] Update of "ImproveSearchingSpeed" by MikeMcCandless

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Add suggestion to use readOnly IndexReader & NIOFSDirectory

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   * '''Get faster hardware, especially a faster IO system.'''
  
   Flash-based Solid State Drives works very well for Lucene searches. As seek-times for SSD's are about 100 times faster than traditional platter-based harddrives, the usual penalty for seeking is virtually eliminated. This means that SSD-equipped machines need less RAM for file caching and that searchers require less warm-up time before they respond quickly.
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+  * '''Open the IndexReader with readOnly=true.'''
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+  This makes a big difference when multiple threads are sharing the same reader, as it removes certain sources of thread contention.
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+  * '''On non-Windows platform, using NIOFSDirectory instead of FSDirectory.'''
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+  This also removes sources of contention when accessing the underlying files. Unfortunately, due to a longstanding bug on Windows in Sun's JRE (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6265734 -- feel particularly free to go vote for it), NIOFSDirectory gets poor performance on Windows.
  
   * '''Add RAM to your hardware and/or increase the heap size for the JVM.'''