The FAQ's have this index performance tip: Use autoCommit=false when you open your IndexWriter > > In Lucene 2.3 there are substantial optimizations for Documents that use > stored fields and term vectors, to save merging of these very large index > files. You should see the best gains by using autoCommit=false for a single > long-running session of IndexWriter. Note however that searchers will not > see any of the changes flushed by this IndexWriter until it is closed; if > that is important you should stick with autoCommit=true instead or > periodically close and re-open the writer
But when I look at the API, there's no way to set autoCommit to false, except via deprecated constrctors. Is this tip deprecated?