Reduce per-field heap usage for indexed fields [LUCENE-6199]
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Description
Lucene uses a non-trivial baseline bytes of heap for each indexed
field, and I know it's abusive for an app to create 100K indexed
fields but I still think we can and should make some effort to reduce
heap usage per unique field?
E.g. in block tree we store 3 BytesRefs per field, when 3 byte[]s
would do...
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Migrated from [LUCENE-6199](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6199) by Michael McCandless (@mikemccand), 1 vote, updated May 09 2016
Attachments: [LUCENE-6199.patch](https://apache.github.io/lucene-jira-archive/attachments/LUCENE-6199/LUCENE-6199.patch) (versions: 2)
Sub-tasks:
- #7378
- #7379
- #7386
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