I was recently walking through schema.xml and noticed triedate vs date and a note that triedate should be considered instead. I believe I understand the basic principle behind triedate but is there an analysis that exists which shows how much bigger an index would be if triedate were used vs date? Also how much faster triedate vs date is? Lastly, the default precisionStep is 6, has there been any analysis about speed/size tradeoffs to show how much faster it is with lower precisionsSteps (i.e. 2 or 4)?
The only writeups I've seen are the ApacheCon PPT that Uwe Schindler put together and this http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2009/05/13/exploring-lucene-and-solrs-trierange-capabilities/. If there are any other resources available I'd greatly appreciate being pointed to them.
