I'm studying the BytesRefHash class, a mapping from bytes to a generated ID for the bytes.
In the BytesRefHash class, there are two levels of reference: (1) ids[bytes' hash code] ---> count, where count is the self-incremental size of the this hashmap. (2) bytesStart[count] ---> offset in the ByteBlockPool, where the original bytes are stored. My question is, can the above two references be collapsed into one, as follows ? ids[bytes' hash code] ---> offset in the ByteBlockPool. I've searched the code, and cannot grab an idea what's the benefit to have another indirection via bytesStart. p.s. Regarding such questions about Lucene source code, should I ask in d...@lucene.apache.org instead ? These questions may be too easy and thus bothering to the developers...
