On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:04 PM, David Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks! So it seems like lucene does a sequential read of both terms > information in the index and then skips around using docid iterators? Is it > able to push the skipping around into the index so it doesn't need to read > as much?
Yes, skipping goes down to the index level, and there are multi-level skip lists to speed up skipping. -Yonik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]