It augments contrib/benchmark.
It's really more singularly focused on specific benchmarks for
indexing, searching, NRT performance, and you obviously have to know
Python to make use of it.
Whereas contrib/benchmark is far more powerful -- the algorithms
language give you lots of freedom on what t
Is http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/luceneutil/ designed
to replace or augment the contrib benchmark? For example it looks
like SearchPerfTest would be useful for executing queries over a
pre-built index. Though there's no indexing tool in the code tree?
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