[KinoSearch] Queries with large number of hits.

[Dan]

> In my book, benchmarking claims presented without code, corpus, stats, raw
> data, and detailed methodological descriptions qualify as "anecdotal
> evidence".  If you have a scientific background, you know what that means:
> not to be ignored, but requiring a high degree of skepticism and not
> particularly useful.

Agreed.

>> Is there anything I can do to make these searches perform better?
>
> There are a couple of known issues that on the todo list that affect search
> speed.  One is a bugfix (SegPList_Skip_To had to be temporarily disabled due
> to corrupt .skip files), and the other is a design flaw, described in
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/java-dev@lucene.apache.org/msg15825.html>.
>  Additionally, implementing the PForDelta compression algorithm for postings
> should speed up searching, but I'd planned to put that off.

These sound interesting. Seems I have more reading to do, thanks for
the pointers.

Thanks,

-Dan