[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #375: Merge postingsources branch

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#375: Merge postingsources branch
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 Reporter:  olly         |       Owner:  richard 
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  high         |   Milestone:  1.1.3   
Component:  Library API  |     Version:          
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:          
Blockedby:               |    Platform:  All     
 Blocking:               |  
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Comment(by richard):

 I suppose I am...  My thinking is that I'm currently not convinced that
 we're going to be able to deprecate flint at that stage, because of ticket
 #326 (slow doclen access).  I'm also concerned that the same problem that
 manifests there (slow skipping through postinglist chunks) will mean that
 access to the new-style value slots is also slow - I've not been able to
 measure this yet, because of the slowness of any search with chert.

 If we _do_ deprecate flint in 1.2.0, the LimitedValueWeightPostingSource
 should be removed before we make the release for 1.2.0, since there'll be
 a better alternative (use chert!), so it will never make a stable release.

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