Lucene Indexing Performance: Managing RAM while Indexing
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-843
This patch, by Michael McCandless pretty much sums up what I love about Lucene and what makes Lucene an extraordinary open source project.
Take Lucene, which already has a pretty strong reputation as being fast, and add in a motivated committer (which Lucene has a high number of, IMO) and out comes a patch that, at [...]

