On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:20 PM, outoftime <m...@patch.com> wrote: > I've read on this list and elsewhere > that sorting by fields has well-defined memory implications - is that true > for relevance sorting as well?
Relevancy sorting has pretty much no memory overhead. Note that if you use function query, that can since it typically uses the FieldCache to obtain values per document (same as sorting). -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com