: Doug & I talked about this a while ago. At a minimum, it would require
: byte[maxDoc()] to store scores in a compressed 8 bit format. It would
: certainly impact performance too.
Why would you have to store the scores? why not just add an optional
byte[]norms param to ConstantScoreQuery, if it's null, things work as they
currently do, if it's non null ConstantWeight.scorer returns a new
subclass of ConstantScorer where score is implemented as...
public float score() throws IOException {
return theScore * normDecoder[norms[doc] & 0xFF];
}
(where normDecoder is just like in TermScorer)
-Hoss
