It seems that SegmentTermEnum#scanTo is a critical method which is called very often, especially whenever we iterate over a sequence of terms in an index.
When that method is called, the first thing happens is that it checks whether a temporary TermBuffer "scratch" has already been initialized.
In fact, this is not necessary. We can simply declare and initialize the "scratch"-Buffer at the class-level (right now, the initial value is null). Java's lazy-loading capabilities allow this without adding any memory footprint for cases where we do not need that buffer.
The attached patch takes care of this. We now save one comparison per term.
In addition to that, the patch renames "scratch" to "scanBuffer", which aligns with the naming of the other two buffers that are declared in the class.
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[PATCH] Avoid checking for TermBuffer in SegmentTermEnum#scanTo
