RE: Question on MMap'd indices

2013-06-21 Thread Uwe Schindler
Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > -Original Message- > From: Sriram Sankar [mailto:san...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 6:19 PM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Question on MMap'd ind

Question on MMap'd indices

2013-06-21 Thread Sriram Sankar
In Unicorn (Facebook's search backend), we used mmap'd indices. We could load them on a separate process - which meant that we could make scoring changes and test rapidly since we did not have to reload the index for every run. Is this true for Lucene also? I'm assuming it would be if the entire