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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-2426:
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Big +1 too :)

For FieldCache, we need to do LUCENE-2380 (creates a BytesRef field cache) and 
switch Lucene to use it -- I'll add a dependency.

> change sort order to binary order
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-2426
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2426
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Index
>    Affects Versions: 4.0.0
>            Reporter: Robert Muir
>             Fix For: 4.0.0
>
>
> Since flexible indexing, terms are now represented as byte[], but for 
> backwards compatibility reasons, they are not sorted as byte[], but instead 
> as if they were char[].
> I think its time to look at sorting terms as byte[]... this would yield the 
> following improvements:
> * terms are more opaque by default, they are byte[] and sort as byte[]. I 
> think this would make lucene friendlier to customizations.
> * numerics and collation are then free to use their own encoding (full byte) 
> rather than avoiding the use of certain bits to remain compatible with char[] 
> sort order.
> * automaton gets simpler because as in LUCENE-2265, it uses byte[] too, and 
> has special hacks because terms are sorted as char[]

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