Index: lucene/contrib/instantiated/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/instantiated/InstantiatedTermsEnum.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/contrib/instantiated/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/instantiated/InstantiatedTermsEnum.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/contrib/instantiated/src/java/org/apache/lucene/store/instantiated/InstantiatedTermsEnum.java	(working copy)
@@ -19,9 +19,13 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsAndPositionsEnum;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PrefixCodedTermState;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Comparator;
 
@@ -91,20 +95,11 @@
   }
 
   @Override
-  public void cacheCurrentTerm() {
-  }
-
-  @Override
   public BytesRef term() {
     return br;
   }
 
   @Override
-  public long ord() {
-    return upto - start;
-  }
-
-  @Override
   public int docFreq() {
     return terms[upto].getAssociatedDocuments().length;
   }
@@ -129,5 +124,19 @@
   public Comparator<BytesRef> getComparator() {
     return BytesRef.getUTF8SortedAsUnicodeComparator();
   }
+
+  @Override
+  public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+    final PrefixCodedTermState state = new PrefixCodedTermState();
+    state.docFreq = docFreq();
+    state.ord = upto - start;
+    return state;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, TermState state) throws IOException {
+    assert state != null && state instanceof PrefixCodedTermState;
+    return seek(((PrefixCodedTermState)state).ord()); // just use the ord for simplicity
+  }
 }
 
Index: lucene/contrib/memory/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/memory/MemoryIndex.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/contrib/memory/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/memory/MemoryIndex.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/contrib/memory/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/memory/MemoryIndex.java	(working copy)
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.document.FieldSelector;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Fields;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Terms;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldsEnum;
@@ -48,6 +49,8 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermPositionVector;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermVectorMapper;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInvertState;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum.SeekStatus;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PrefixCodedTermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Collector;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
@@ -877,15 +880,6 @@
       }
 
       @Override
-      public void cacheCurrentTerm() {
-      }
-
-      @Override
-      public long ord() {
-        return termUpto;
-      }
-
-      @Override
       public int docFreq() {
         return 1;
       }
@@ -910,6 +904,20 @@
       public Comparator<BytesRef> getComparator() {
         return BytesRef.getUTF8SortedAsUnicodeComparator();
       }
+
+      @Override
+      public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, TermState state) throws IOException {
+        assert state != null && state instanceof PrefixCodedTermState;
+        return this.seek(((PrefixCodedTermState)state).ord);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+        PrefixCodedTermState termState = new PrefixCodedTermState();
+        termState.docFreq = 1;
+        termState.ord = termUpto;
+        return termState;
+      }
     }
 
     private class MemoryDocsEnum extends DocsEnum {
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/CheckIndex.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/CheckIndex.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/CheckIndex.java	(working copy)
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.CodecProvider;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.DefaultSegmentInfosWriter;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PrefixCodedTermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 
@@ -637,7 +638,12 @@
           if (hasOrd) {
             long ord = -1;
             try {
-              ord = terms.ord();
+              TermState termState = terms.termState();
+              if (termState instanceof PrefixCodedTermState) {
+                ord = ((PrefixCodedTermState) termState).ord();
+              } else {
+                hasOrd = false;
+              }
             } catch (UnsupportedOperationException uoe) {
               hasOrd = false;
             }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/FilterIndexReader.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/FilterIndexReader.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/FilterIndexReader.java	(working copy)
@@ -130,11 +130,6 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void cacheCurrentTerm() throws IOException {
-      in.cacheCurrentTerm();
-    }
-
-    @Override
     public SeekStatus seek(long ord) throws IOException {
       return in.seek(ord);
     }
@@ -150,11 +145,6 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public long ord() throws IOException {
-      return in.ord();
-    }
-
-    @Override
     public int docFreq() {
       return in.docFreq();
     }
@@ -173,6 +163,16 @@
     public Comparator<BytesRef> getComparator() throws IOException {
       return in.getComparator();
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, TermState state) throws IOException {
+      return in.seek(term, state);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+      return in.termState();
+    }
   }
 
   /** Base class for filtering {@link DocsEnum} implementations. */
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader.java	(working copy)
@@ -1070,6 +1070,49 @@
       return null;
     }
   }
+  
+  /**
+   * Returns {@link DocsEnum} for the specified field, term and
+   * {@link TermState}. This may return null, if either the field or the term
+   * does not exists or the {@link TermState} is invalid for the underlying
+   * implementation.*/
+  public DocsEnum termDocsEnum(Bits skipDocs, String field, BytesRef term, TermState state) throws IOException {
+    assert state != null;
+    assert field != null;
+    assert term != null;
+    final Fields fields = fields();
+    if (fields == null) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    final Terms terms = fields.terms(field);
+    if (terms != null) {
+      return terms.docs(skipDocs, term, state, null);
+    } else {
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+  
+  /**
+   * Returns {@link DocsAndPositionsEnum} for the specified field, term and
+   * {@link TermState}. This may return null, if either the field or the term
+   * does not exists, the {@link TermState} is invalid for the underlying
+   * implementation, or positions were not stored for this term.*/
+  public DocsAndPositionsEnum termPositionsEnum(Bits skipDocs, String field, BytesRef term, TermState state) throws IOException {
+    assert state != null;
+    assert field != null;
+    assert term != null;
+    final Fields fields = fields();
+    if (fields == null) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    final Terms terms = fields.terms(field);
+    if (terms != null) {
+      return terms.docsAndPositions(skipDocs, term, state, null);
+    } else {
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+
 
   /** Deletes the document numbered <code>docNum</code>.  Once a document is
    * deleted it will not appear in TermDocs or TermPositions enumerations.
@@ -1126,7 +1169,7 @@
     if (docs == null) return 0;
     int n = 0;
     int doc;
-    while ((doc = docs.nextDoc()) != docs.NO_MORE_DOCS) {
+    while ((doc = docs.nextDoc()) != DocsEnum.NO_MORE_DOCS) {
       deleteDocument(doc);
       n++;
     }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/MultiTermsEnum.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/MultiTermsEnum.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/MultiTermsEnum.java	(working copy)
@@ -91,13 +91,6 @@
   }
 
   @Override
-  public void cacheCurrentTerm() throws IOException {
-    for(int i=0;i<numTop;i++) {
-      top[i].terms.cacheCurrentTerm();
-    }
-  }
-
-  @Override
   public Comparator<BytesRef> getComparator() {
     return termComp;
   }
@@ -215,11 +208,6 @@
     throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
   }
 
-  @Override
-  public long ord() throws IOException {
-    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
-  }
-
   private void pullTop() {
     // extract all subs from the queue that have the same
     // top term
@@ -434,4 +422,24 @@
       }
     }
   }
+
+  @Override
+  public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, TermState state /*ignored*/) throws IOException {
+    assert term != null;
+    return seek(term);
+  }
+  
+  @Override
+  public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+    return new TermState() {
+      private final int docFreq = MultiTermsEnum.this.docFreq(); 
+      @Override
+      public int docFreq() {
+        return docFreq;
+      }
+      @Override
+      public void copy(TermState other) {
+      }
+    };
+  }
 }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/TermState.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/TermState.java	(revision 0)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/TermState.java	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package org.apache.lucene.index;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Holds all state required for {@link TermsEnum} to produce a {@link DocsEnum}
+ * without re-seeking the terms dict.
+ * 
+ * @lucene.experimental
+ */
+public abstract class TermState implements Cloneable {
+  
+  /**
+   * Copies the content of the given {@link TermState} to this instance
+   * 
+   * @param other
+   *          the TermState to copy
+   */
+  public abstract void copy(TermState other);
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the document frequency of the term this {@link TermState} was
+   *         created for in the creating {@link TermsEnum}
+   * @return the document frequency of the term this {@link TermState} was
+   *         created for in the creating {@link TermsEnum}
+   */
+  public abstract int docFreq();
+
+  @Override
+  public Object clone() {
+    try {
+      return super.clone();
+    } catch (CloneNotSupportedException cnse) {
+      // should not happen
+      throw new RuntimeException(cnse);
+    }
+  }
+  
+}
\ No newline at end of file
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/Terms.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/Terms.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/Terms.java	(working copy)
@@ -80,6 +80,39 @@
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Expert: Get {@link DocsEnum} for the specified term and {@link TermState}.
+   * This method may return null if the term does not exist.
+   * 
+   * @see TermsEnum#termState()
+   * @see TermsEnum#seek(BytesRef, TermState) */
+  public DocsEnum docs(Bits skipDocs, BytesRef text, TermState termState,
+      DocsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
+    final TermsEnum termsEnum = getThreadTermsEnum();
+    if (termsEnum.seek(text, termState) == TermsEnum.SeekStatus.FOUND) {
+      return termsEnum.docs(skipDocs, reuse);
+    } else {
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Get {@link DocsEnum} for the specified term and {@link TermState}. This
+   * method will may return null if the term does not exists, or positions were
+   * not indexed.
+   * 
+   * @see TermsEnum#termState()
+   * @see TermsEnum#seek(BytesRef, TermState) */
+  public DocsAndPositionsEnum docsAndPositions(Bits skipDocs, BytesRef text,
+      TermState termState, DocsAndPositionsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
+    final TermsEnum termsEnum = getThreadTermsEnum();
+    if (termsEnum.seek(text, termState) == TermsEnum.SeekStatus.FOUND) {
+      return termsEnum.docsAndPositions(skipDocs, reuse);
+    } else {
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+
   public long getUniqueTermCount() throws IOException {
     throw new UnsupportedOperationException("this reader does not implement getUniqueTermCount()");
   }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/TermsEnum.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/TermsEnum.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/TermsEnum.java	(working copy)
@@ -73,6 +73,20 @@
    *  may be before or after the current ord.  See {@link
    *  #seek(BytesRef)}. */
   public abstract SeekStatus seek(long ord) throws IOException;
+
+  /**
+   * Expert: Seeks to the specified term by {@link TermState} as previously
+   * returned by {@link #termState()}. The given {@link BytesRef} must hold the
+   * same text as used for positioning the TermsEnum before {@link #termState()}
+   * was called. Callers should maintain the {@link BytesRef} obtained from
+   * {@link #term()} together with the {@link TermState} to use this method.
+   * Low-level implementations will position the TermsEnum without re-seeking
+   * the term dictionary. Using this method with a {@link TermState} obtained
+   * from a different {@link Terms} instance will leave the {@link TermsEnum} in
+   * undefined state.
+   * */
+  public abstract SeekStatus seek(BytesRef text, TermState state) throws IOException;
+
   
   /** Increments the enumeration to the next element.
    *  Returns the resulting term, or null if the end was
@@ -85,20 +99,12 @@
    *  or after seek returns {@link SeekStatus#END}.*/
   public abstract BytesRef term() throws IOException;
 
-  /** Returns ordinal position for current term.  This is an
-   *  optional method (the codec may throw {@link
-   *  UnsupportedOperationException}).  Do not call this
-   *  before calling {@link #next} for the first time or after
-   *  {@link #next} returns null or {@link #seek} returns
-   *  END; */
-  public abstract long ord() throws IOException;
-
   /** Returns the number of documents containing the current
    *  term.  Do not call this before calling next() for the
    *  first time, after next() returns null or seek returns
    *  {@link SeekStatus#END}.*/
   public abstract int docFreq();
-
+  
   /** Get {@link DocsEnum} for the current term.  Do not
    *  call this before calling {@link #next} or {@link
    *  #seek} for the first time.  This method will not
@@ -116,6 +122,15 @@
    *  the postings by this codec. */
   public abstract DocsAndPositionsEnum docsAndPositions(Bits skipDocs, DocsAndPositionsEnum reuse) throws IOException;
 
+  /**
+   * Expert: Returns the TermsEnums internal state to position the TermsEnum
+   * without re-seeking the term dictionary.
+   * 
+   * @see TermState
+   * @see #seek(BytesRef, TermState)
+   */
+  public abstract TermState termState() throws IOException;
+  
   /** Return the {@link BytesRef} Comparator used to sort
    *  terms provided by the iterator.  This may return
    *  null if there are no terms.  Callers may invoke this
@@ -123,10 +138,6 @@
    *  instance & reuse it. */
   public abstract Comparator<BytesRef> getComparator() throws IOException;
 
-  /** Optional optimization hint: informs the codec that the
-   *  current term is likely to be re-seek'd-to soon.  */
-  public abstract void cacheCurrentTerm() throws IOException;
-
   /** An empty TermsEnum for quickly returning an empty instance e.g.
    * in {@link org.apache.lucene.search.MultiTermQuery}
    * <p><em>Please note:</em> This enum should be unmodifiable,
@@ -142,9 +153,6 @@
     public SeekStatus seek(long ord) { return SeekStatus.END; }
     
     @Override
-    public void cacheCurrentTerm() {}
-    
-    @Override
     public BytesRef term() {
       throw new IllegalStateException("this method should never be called");
     }
@@ -160,11 +168,6 @@
     }
       
     @Override
-    public long ord() {
-      throw new IllegalStateException("this method should never be called");
-    }
-
-    @Override
     public DocsEnum docs(Bits bits, DocsEnum reuse) {
       throw new IllegalStateException("this method should never be called");
     }
@@ -183,5 +186,15 @@
     public synchronized AttributeSource attributes() {
       return super.attributes();
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+      throw new IllegalStateException("this method should never be called");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, TermState state) throws IOException {
+      throw new IllegalStateException("this method should never be called");
+    }
   };
 }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/PostingsReaderBase.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/PostingsReaderBase.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/PostingsReaderBase.java	(working copy)
@@ -42,17 +42,17 @@
   public abstract void init(IndexInput termsIn) throws IOException;
 
   /** Return a newly created empty TermState */
-  public abstract TermState newTermState() throws IOException;
+  public abstract PrefixCodedTermState newTermState() throws IOException;
 
-  public abstract void readTerm(IndexInput termsIn, FieldInfo fieldInfo, TermState state, boolean isIndexTerm) throws IOException;
+  public abstract void readTerm(IndexInput termsIn, FieldInfo fieldInfo, PrefixCodedTermState state, boolean isIndexTerm) throws IOException;
 
   /** Must fully consume state, since after this call that
    *  TermState may be reused. */
-  public abstract DocsEnum docs(FieldInfo fieldInfo, TermState state, Bits skipDocs, DocsEnum reuse) throws IOException;
+  public abstract DocsEnum docs(FieldInfo fieldInfo, PrefixCodedTermState state, Bits skipDocs, DocsEnum reuse) throws IOException;
 
   /** Must fully consume state, since after this call that
    *  TermState may be reused. */
-  public abstract DocsAndPositionsEnum docsAndPositions(FieldInfo fieldInfo, TermState state, Bits skipDocs, DocsAndPositionsEnum reuse) throws IOException;
+  public abstract DocsAndPositionsEnum docsAndPositions(FieldInfo fieldInfo, PrefixCodedTermState state, Bits skipDocs, DocsAndPositionsEnum reuse) throws IOException;
 
   public abstract void close() throws IOException;
 }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/PrefixCodedTermState.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/PrefixCodedTermState.java	(revision 0)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/PrefixCodedTermState.java	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package org.apache.lucene.index.codecs;
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
+
+/**
+ * Holds all state required for {@link PostingsReaderBase}
+ * to produce a {@link DocsEnum} without re-seeking the
+ * terms dict.
+ */
+public class PrefixCodedTermState extends TermState {
+  public int docFreq; // how many docs have this term
+  public long ord; // ord for this term 
+  public long filePointer; // fp into the terms dict primary file (_X.tis)
+
+  @Override
+  public void copy(TermState _other) {
+    PrefixCodedTermState other = (PrefixCodedTermState) _other;
+    ord = other.ord;
+    filePointer = other.filePointer;
+    docFreq = other.docFreq;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String toString() {
+    return super.toString() + "[ord=" + ord + ", tis.filePointer=" + filePointer
+        + "]";
+  }
+  
+  public long ord() {
+    return ord;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public int docFreq() {
+    return docFreq;
+  }
+
+}
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/PrefixCodedTermsReader.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/PrefixCodedTermsReader.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/PrefixCodedTermsReader.java	(working copy)
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexFileNames;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfo;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Terms;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@
   private final Comparator<BytesRef> termComp;
 
   // Caches the most recently looked-up field + terms:
-  private final DoubleBarrelLRUCache<FieldAndTerm,TermState> termsCache;
+  private final DoubleBarrelLRUCache<FieldAndTerm,PrefixCodedTermState> termsCache;
 
   // Reads the terms index
   private TermsIndexReaderBase indexReader;
@@ -84,11 +85,6 @@
     public FieldAndTerm() {
     }
 
-    public FieldAndTerm(String field, BytesRef term) {
-      this.field = field;
-      this.term = new BytesRef(term);
-    }
-
     public FieldAndTerm(FieldAndTerm other) {
       field = other.field;
       term = new BytesRef(other.term);
@@ -116,7 +112,7 @@
     throws IOException {
     
     this.postingsReader = postingsReader;
-    termsCache = new DoubleBarrelLRUCache<FieldAndTerm,TermState>(termsCacheSize);
+    termsCache = new DoubleBarrelLRUCache<FieldAndTerm,PrefixCodedTermState>(termsCacheSize);
 
     this.termComp = termComp;
     
@@ -282,10 +278,10 @@
     }
 
     // Iterates through terms in this field
-    private class SegmentTermsEnum extends TermsEnum {
+    private final class SegmentTermsEnum extends TermsEnum {
       private final IndexInput in;
       private final DeltaBytesReader bytesReader;
-      private final TermState state;
+      private final PrefixCodedTermState state;
       private boolean seekPending;
       private final TermsIndexReaderBase.TermsIndexResult indexResult = new TermsIndexReaderBase.TermsIndexResult();
       private final FieldAndTerm fieldTerm = new FieldAndTerm();
@@ -304,33 +300,20 @@
         return termComp;
       }
 
-      @Override
-      public void cacheCurrentTerm() {
-        TermState stateCopy = (TermState) state.clone();
-        stateCopy.filePointer = in.getFilePointer();
-        termsCache.put(new FieldAndTerm(fieldInfo.name, bytesReader.term),
-                       stateCopy);
-      }
-
       /** Seeks until the first term that's >= the provided
        *  text; returns SeekStatus.FOUND if the exact term
        *  is found, SeekStatus.NOT_FOUND if a different term
        *  was found, SeekStatus.END if we hit EOF */
       @Override
-      public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, boolean useCache) throws IOException {
+      public SeekStatus seek(final BytesRef term, final boolean useCache) throws IOException {
         // Check cache
         fieldTerm.term = term;
-        TermState cachedState;
         if (useCache) {
-          cachedState = termsCache.get(fieldTerm);
+          final PrefixCodedTermState cachedState = termsCache.get(fieldTerm);
           if (cachedState != null) {
-            state.copy(cachedState);
-            seekPending = true;
-            bytesReader.term.copy(term);
+            setTermState(term, cachedState);
             return SeekStatus.FOUND;
           }
-        } else {
-          cachedState = null;
         }
 
         boolean doSeek = true;
@@ -387,16 +370,9 @@
         while(next() != null) {
           final int cmp = termComp.compare(bytesReader.term, term);
           if (cmp == 0) {
-
             if (doSeek && useCache) {
-              // Store in cache
-              FieldAndTerm entryKey = new FieldAndTerm(fieldTerm);
-              cachedState = (TermState) state.clone();
-              // this is fp after current term
-              cachedState.filePointer = in.getFilePointer();
-              termsCache.put(entryKey, cachedState);
+              cacheTerm(fieldTerm);
             }
-              
             return SeekStatus.FOUND;
           } else if (cmp > 0) {
             return SeekStatus.NOT_FOUND;
@@ -412,6 +388,24 @@
         return SeekStatus.END;
       }
 
+      private final void setTermState(final BytesRef term, final TermState termState) {
+        assert termState != null;
+        assert term != null;
+        state.copy(termState);
+        seekPending = true;
+        bytesReader.term.copy(term);
+      }
+
+      private final void cacheTerm(FieldAndTerm other) {
+        // Store in cache
+        final FieldAndTerm entryKey = new FieldAndTerm(other);
+        final PrefixCodedTermState cachedState = (PrefixCodedTermState) state.clone();
+        // this is fp after current term
+        cachedState.filePointer = in.getFilePointer();
+        termsCache.put(entryKey, cachedState);
+      }
+      
+
       @Override
       public SeekStatus seek(long ord) throws IOException {
 
@@ -452,11 +446,6 @@
       }
 
       @Override
-      public long ord() {
-        return state.ord;
-      }
-
-      @Override
       public BytesRef next() throws IOException {
 
         if (seekPending) {
@@ -494,7 +483,7 @@
 
       @Override
       public DocsEnum docs(Bits skipDocs, DocsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
-        DocsEnum docsEnum = postingsReader.docs(fieldInfo, state, skipDocs, reuse);
+        final DocsEnum docsEnum = postingsReader.docs(fieldInfo, state, skipDocs, reuse);
         assert docsEnum != null;
         return docsEnum;
       }
@@ -507,6 +496,22 @@
           return postingsReader.docsAndPositions(fieldInfo, state, skipDocs, reuse);
         }
       }
+
+      @Override
+      public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, TermState otherState) throws IOException {
+        assert otherState != null && otherState instanceof PrefixCodedTermState;
+        assert otherState.getClass() == this.state.getClass();
+        assert ((PrefixCodedTermState)otherState).ord() < numTerms;
+        setTermState(term, otherState);
+        return SeekStatus.FOUND;
+      }
+      
+      @Override
+      public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+        final PrefixCodedTermState newTermState = (PrefixCodedTermState) state.clone();
+        newTermState.filePointer = in.getFilePointer();
+        return newTermState;
+      }
     }
   }
 }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/TermState.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/TermState.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/TermState.java	(working copy)
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-package org.apache.lucene.index.codecs;
-
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsEnum;          // for javadocs
-
-import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.standard.StandardPostingsReader; // javadocs
-
-/**
- * Holds all state required for {@link StandardPostingsReader}
- * to produce a {@link DocsEnum} without re-seeking the
- * terms dict.
- * @lucene.experimental
- */
-
-public class TermState implements Cloneable {
-  public long ord;                                     // ord for this term
-  public long filePointer;                             // fp into the terms dict primary file (_X.tis)
-  public int docFreq;                                  // how many docs have this term
-
-  public void copy(TermState other) {
-    ord = other.ord;
-    filePointer = other.filePointer;
-    docFreq = other.docFreq;
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public Object clone() {
-    try {
-      return super.clone();
-    } catch (CloneNotSupportedException cnse) {
-      // should not happen
-      throw new RuntimeException(cnse);
-    }
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public String toString() {
-    return "tis.fp=" + filePointer + " docFreq=" + docFreq + " ord=" + ord;
-  }
-}
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/preflex/PreFlexFields.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/preflex/PreFlexFields.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/preflex/PreFlexFields.java	(working copy)
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexFileNames;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfo;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Terms;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.CompoundFileReader;
@@ -742,21 +743,11 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void cacheCurrentTerm() throws IOException {
-      getTermsDict().cacheCurrentTerm(termEnum);
-    }
-
-    @Override
     public SeekStatus seek(long ord) throws IOException {
       throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
     }
 
     @Override
-    public long ord() throws IOException {
-      throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
-    }
-
-    @Override
     public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, boolean useCache) throws IOException {
       if (DEBUG_SURROGATES) {
         System.out.println("TE.seek target=" + UnicodeUtil.toHexString(term.utf8ToString()));
@@ -971,6 +962,26 @@
       }
       return docsPosEnum.reset(termEnum, skipDocs);        
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, TermState state) throws IOException {
+      assert term != null;
+      return seek(term);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+      return new TermState() {
+        private final int docFreq = termEnum.docFreq(); 
+        @Override
+        public int docFreq() {
+          return docFreq;
+        }
+        @Override
+        public void copy(TermState other) {
+        }
+      };
+    }
   }
 
   private final class PreDocsEnum extends DocsEnum {
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/pulsing/PulsingPostingsReaderImpl.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/pulsing/PulsingPostingsReaderImpl.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/pulsing/PulsingPostingsReaderImpl.java	(working copy)
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInfo;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsAndPositionsEnum;
-import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.TermState;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PostingsReaderBase;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PrefixCodedTermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.pulsing.PulsingPostingsWriterImpl.Document;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.pulsing.PulsingPostingsWriterImpl.Position;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.IndexInput;
@@ -57,14 +58,14 @@
     wrappedPostingsReader.init(termsIn);
   }
 
-  private static class PulsingTermState extends TermState {
+  private static final class PulsingTermState extends PrefixCodedTermState {
     private Document docs[];
-    private TermState wrappedTermState;
+    private PrefixCodedTermState wrappedTermState;
     private boolean pendingIndexTerm;
 
+    @Override
     public Object clone() {
-      PulsingTermState clone;
-      clone = (PulsingTermState) super.clone();
+      final PulsingTermState clone = (PulsingTermState) super.clone();
       clone.docs = docs.clone();
       for(int i=0;i<clone.docs.length;i++) {
         final Document doc = clone.docs[i];
@@ -72,10 +73,11 @@
           clone.docs[i] = (Document) doc.clone();
         }
       }
-      clone.wrappedTermState = (TermState) wrappedTermState.clone();
+      clone.wrappedTermState = (PrefixCodedTermState) wrappedTermState.clone();
       return clone;
     }
 
+    @Override
     public void copy(TermState _other) {
       super.copy(_other);
       PulsingTermState other = (PulsingTermState) _other;
@@ -90,7 +92,7 @@
   }
 
   @Override
-  public TermState newTermState() throws IOException {
+  public PrefixCodedTermState newTermState() throws IOException {
     PulsingTermState state = new PulsingTermState();
     state.wrappedTermState = wrappedPostingsReader.newTermState();
     state.docs = new Document[maxPulsingDocFreq];
@@ -98,8 +100,7 @@
   }
 
   @Override
-  public void readTerm(IndexInput termsIn, FieldInfo fieldInfo, TermState _termState, boolean isIndexTerm) throws IOException {
-
+  public void readTerm(IndexInput termsIn, FieldInfo fieldInfo, PrefixCodedTermState _termState, boolean isIndexTerm) throws IOException {
     PulsingTermState termState = (PulsingTermState) _termState;
 
     termState.pendingIndexTerm |= isIndexTerm;
@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@
   // TODO: we could actually reuse, by having TL that
   // holds the last wrapped reuse, and vice-versa
   @Override
-  public DocsEnum docs(FieldInfo field, TermState _termState, Bits skipDocs, DocsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
+  public DocsEnum docs(FieldInfo field, PrefixCodedTermState _termState, Bits skipDocs, DocsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
     PulsingTermState termState = (PulsingTermState) _termState;
     if (termState.docFreq <= maxPulsingDocFreq) {
       if (reuse instanceof PulsingDocsEnum) {
@@ -202,7 +203,7 @@
 
   // TODO: -- not great that we can't always reuse
   @Override
-  public DocsAndPositionsEnum docsAndPositions(FieldInfo field, TermState _termState, Bits skipDocs, DocsAndPositionsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
+  public DocsAndPositionsEnum docsAndPositions(FieldInfo field, PrefixCodedTermState _termState, Bits skipDocs, DocsAndPositionsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
     PulsingTermState termState = (PulsingTermState) _termState;
     if (termState.docFreq <= maxPulsingDocFreq) {
       if (reuse instanceof PulsingDocsAndPositionsEnum) {
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/sep/SepPostingsReaderImpl.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/sep/SepPostingsReaderImpl.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/sep/SepPostingsReaderImpl.java	(working copy)
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInfo;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexFileNames;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfo;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PostingsReaderBase;
-import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.TermState;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PrefixCodedTermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.IndexInput;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
@@ -129,12 +130,13 @@
     }
   }
 
-  private static class SepTermState extends TermState {
+  private static final class SepTermState extends PrefixCodedTermState {
     // We store only the seek point to the docs file because
     // the rest of the info (freqIndex, posIndex, etc.) is
     // stored in the docs file:
     IntIndexInput.Index docIndex;
-
+    
+    @Override
     public Object clone() {
       SepTermState other = (SepTermState) super.clone();
       other.docIndex = (IntIndexInput.Index) docIndex.clone();
@@ -154,19 +156,19 @@
   }
 
   @Override
-  public TermState newTermState() throws IOException {
+  public PrefixCodedTermState newTermState() throws IOException {
     final SepTermState state =  new SepTermState();
     state.docIndex = docIn.index();
     return state;
   }
 
   @Override
-  public void readTerm(IndexInput termsIn, FieldInfo fieldInfo, TermState termState, boolean isIndexTerm) throws IOException {
+  public void readTerm(IndexInput termsIn, FieldInfo fieldInfo, PrefixCodedTermState termState, boolean isIndexTerm) throws IOException {
     ((SepTermState) termState).docIndex.read(termsIn, isIndexTerm);
   }
 
   @Override
-  public DocsEnum docs(FieldInfo fieldInfo, TermState _termState, Bits skipDocs, DocsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
+  public DocsEnum docs(FieldInfo fieldInfo, PrefixCodedTermState _termState, Bits skipDocs, DocsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
     final SepTermState termState = (SepTermState) _termState;
     SepDocsEnum docsEnum;
     if (reuse == null || !(reuse instanceof SepDocsEnum)) {
@@ -185,7 +187,7 @@
   }
 
   @Override
-  public DocsAndPositionsEnum docsAndPositions(FieldInfo fieldInfo, TermState _termState, Bits skipDocs, DocsAndPositionsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
+  public DocsAndPositionsEnum docsAndPositions(FieldInfo fieldInfo, PrefixCodedTermState _termState, Bits skipDocs, DocsAndPositionsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
     assert !fieldInfo.omitTermFreqAndPositions;
     final SepTermState termState = (SepTermState) _termState;
     SepDocsAndPositionsEnum postingsEnum;
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextFieldsReader.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextFieldsReader.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/simpletext/SimpleTextFieldsReader.java	(working copy)
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.FieldsProducer;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReadState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldsEnum;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Terms;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsAndPositionsEnum;
@@ -153,10 +154,6 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void cacheCurrentTerm() {
-    }
-
-    @Override
     public BytesRef next() throws IOException {
       assert !ended;
       final BytesRefFSTEnum.InputOutput<PairOutputs.Pair<Long,Long>> result = fstEnum.next();
@@ -176,11 +173,6 @@
     }
 
     @Override
-    public long ord() throws IOException {
-      throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
-    }
-
-    @Override
     public SeekStatus seek(long ord) {
       throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
     }
@@ -215,6 +207,25 @@
       } 
       return docsAndPositionsEnum.reset(docsStart, skipDocs);
     }
+    
+    public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, TermState state) throws IOException {
+      assert term != null;
+      return seek(term);
+    }
+    
+    @Override
+    public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+      return new TermState() {
+        private final int docFreq =SimpleTextTermsEnum.this.docFreq; 
+        @Override
+        public int docFreq() {
+          return docFreq;
+        }
+        @Override
+        public void copy(TermState other) {
+        }
+      };
+    }
 
     @Override
     public Comparator<BytesRef> getComparator() {
@@ -440,7 +451,6 @@
   }
 
   private class SimpleTextTerms extends Terms {
-    private final String field;
     private final long termsStart;
     private final boolean omitTF;
     private FST<PairOutputs.Pair<Long,Long>> fst;
@@ -448,7 +458,6 @@
     private final BytesRef scratch = new BytesRef(10);
 
     public SimpleTextTerms(String field, long termsStart) throws IOException {
-      this.field = StringHelper.intern(field);
       this.termsStart = termsStart;
       omitTF = fieldInfos.fieldInfo(field).omitTermFreqAndPositions;
       loadTerms();
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/standard/StandardPostingsReader.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/standard/StandardPostingsReader.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/codecs/standard/StandardPostingsReader.java	(working copy)
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsAndPositionsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexFileNames;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PostingsReaderBase;
-import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.TermState;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PrefixCodedTermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.IndexInput;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
@@ -83,20 +84,22 @@
   }
 
   // Must keep final because we do non-standard clone
-  private final static class DocTermState extends TermState {
+  private final static class StandardTermState extends PrefixCodedTermState {
     long freqOffset;
     long proxOffset;
     int skipOffset;
-
+    
+    @Override
     public Object clone() {
-      DocTermState other = new DocTermState();
+      StandardTermState other = new StandardTermState();
       other.copy(this);
       return other;
     }
 
+    @Override
     public void copy(TermState _other) {
       super.copy(_other);
-      DocTermState other = (DocTermState) _other;
+      StandardTermState other = (StandardTermState) _other;
       freqOffset = other.freqOffset;
       proxOffset = other.proxOffset;
       skipOffset = other.skipOffset;
@@ -108,8 +111,8 @@
   }
 
   @Override
-  public TermState newTermState() {
-    return new DocTermState();
+  public PrefixCodedTermState newTermState() {
+    return new StandardTermState();
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -126,10 +129,9 @@
   }
 
   @Override
-  public void readTerm(IndexInput termsIn, FieldInfo fieldInfo, TermState termState, boolean isIndexTerm)
+  public void readTerm(IndexInput termsIn, FieldInfo fieldInfo, PrefixCodedTermState termState, boolean isIndexTerm)
     throws IOException {
-
-    final DocTermState docTermState = (DocTermState) termState;
+    final StandardTermState docTermState = (StandardTermState) termState;
 
     if (isIndexTerm) {
       docTermState.freqOffset = termsIn.readVLong();
@@ -153,7 +155,7 @@
   }
     
   @Override
-  public DocsEnum docs(FieldInfo fieldInfo, TermState termState, Bits skipDocs, DocsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
+  public DocsEnum docs(FieldInfo fieldInfo, PrefixCodedTermState termState, Bits skipDocs, DocsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
     SegmentDocsEnum docsEnum;
     if (reuse == null || !(reuse instanceof SegmentDocsEnum)) {
       docsEnum = new SegmentDocsEnum(freqIn);
@@ -166,11 +168,11 @@
         docsEnum = new SegmentDocsEnum(freqIn);
       }
     }
-    return docsEnum.reset(fieldInfo, (DocTermState) termState, skipDocs);
+    return docsEnum.reset(fieldInfo, (StandardTermState) termState, skipDocs);
   }
 
   @Override
-  public DocsAndPositionsEnum docsAndPositions(FieldInfo fieldInfo, TermState termState, Bits skipDocs, DocsAndPositionsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
+  public DocsAndPositionsEnum docsAndPositions(FieldInfo fieldInfo, PrefixCodedTermState termState, Bits skipDocs, DocsAndPositionsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
     if (fieldInfo.omitTermFreqAndPositions) {
       return null;
     }
@@ -189,7 +191,7 @@
           docsEnum = new SegmentDocsAndPositionsAndPayloadsEnum(freqIn, proxIn);
         }
       }
-      return docsEnum.reset(fieldInfo, (DocTermState) termState, skipDocs);
+      return docsEnum.reset(fieldInfo, (StandardTermState) termState, skipDocs);
     } else {
       SegmentDocsAndPositionsEnum docsEnum;
       if (reuse == null || !(reuse instanceof SegmentDocsAndPositionsEnum)) {
@@ -203,7 +205,7 @@
           docsEnum = new SegmentDocsAndPositionsEnum(freqIn, proxIn);
         }
       }
-      return docsEnum.reset(fieldInfo, (DocTermState) termState, skipDocs);
+      return docsEnum.reset(fieldInfo, (StandardTermState) termState, skipDocs);
     }
   }
 
@@ -233,7 +235,7 @@
       this.freqIn = (IndexInput) freqIn.clone();
     }
 
-    public SegmentDocsEnum reset(FieldInfo fieldInfo, DocTermState termState, Bits skipDocs) throws IOException {
+    public SegmentDocsEnum reset(FieldInfo fieldInfo, StandardTermState termState, Bits skipDocs) throws IOException {
       omitTF = fieldInfo.omitTermFreqAndPositions;
       if (omitTF) {
         freq = 1;
@@ -407,7 +409,7 @@
       this.proxIn = (IndexInput) proxIn.clone();
     }
 
-    public SegmentDocsAndPositionsEnum reset(FieldInfo fieldInfo, DocTermState termState, Bits skipDocs) throws IOException {
+    public SegmentDocsAndPositionsEnum reset(FieldInfo fieldInfo, StandardTermState termState, Bits skipDocs) throws IOException {
       assert !fieldInfo.omitTermFreqAndPositions;
       assert !fieldInfo.storePayloads;
 
@@ -594,7 +596,7 @@
       this.proxIn = (IndexInput) proxIn.clone();
     }
 
-    public SegmentDocsAndPositionsAndPayloadsEnum reset(FieldInfo fieldInfo, DocTermState termState, Bits skipDocs) throws IOException {
+    public SegmentDocsAndPositionsAndPayloadsEnum reset(FieldInfo fieldInfo, StandardTermState termState, Bits skipDocs) throws IOException {
       assert !fieldInfo.omitTermFreqAndPositions;
       assert fieldInfo.storePayloads;
       if (payload == null) {
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/ConstantScoreAutoRewrite.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/ConstantScoreAutoRewrite.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/ConstantScoreAutoRewrite.java	(working copy)
@@ -21,9 +21,15 @@
 
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.ArrayUtil;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.ByteBlockPool;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRefHash;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.PerReaderTermState;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.RamUsageEstimator;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRefHash.DirectBytesStartArray;
 
 class ConstantScoreAutoRewrite extends TermCollectingRewrite<BooleanQuery> {
 
@@ -71,8 +77,8 @@
   }
   
   @Override
-  protected void addClause(BooleanQuery topLevel, Term term, int docFreq, float boost /*ignored*/) {
-    topLevel.add(new TermQuery(term, docFreq), BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
+  protected void addClause(BooleanQuery topLevel, Term term, int docFreq, float boost /*ignored*/, PerReaderTermState states) {
+    topLevel.add(new TermQuery(term, states), BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -98,9 +104,10 @@
       final BytesRefHash pendingTerms = col.pendingTerms;
       final int sort[] = pendingTerms.sort(col.termsEnum.getComparator());
       for(int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
+        final int pos = sort[i];
         // docFreq is not used for constant score here, we pass 1
         // to explicitely set a fake value, so it's not calculated
-        addClause(bq, placeholderTerm.createTerm(pendingTerms.get(sort[i], new BytesRef())), 1, 1.0f);
+        addClause(bq, placeholderTerm.createTerm(pendingTerms.get(pos, new BytesRef())), 1, 1.0f, col.array.termState[pos]);
       }
       // Strip scores
       final Query result = new ConstantScoreQuery(new QueryWrapperFilter(bq));
@@ -123,12 +130,21 @@
       
     @Override
     public boolean collect(BytesRef bytes) throws IOException {
-      pendingTerms.add(bytes);
+      int pos = pendingTerms.add(bytes);
       docVisitCount += termsEnum.docFreq();
       if (pendingTerms.size() >= termCountLimit || docVisitCount >= docCountCutoff) {
         hasCutOff = true;
         return false;
       }
+      
+      final TermState termState = termsEnum.termState();
+      assert termState != null;
+      if (pos < 0) {
+        pos = (-pos)-1;
+        array.termState[pos].register(termState, reader);
+      } else {
+        array.termState[pos] = new PerReaderTermState(termStateReaderView, termState, reader);
+      }
       return true;
     }
     
@@ -137,7 +153,8 @@
     TermsEnum termsEnum;
 
     final int docCountCutoff, termCountLimit;
-    final BytesRefHash pendingTerms = new BytesRefHash();
+    final TermStateByteStart array = new TermStateByteStart(16);
+    final BytesRefHash pendingTerms = new BytesRefHash(new ByteBlockPool(new ByteBlockPool.DirectAllocator()), 16, array);
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -166,4 +183,40 @@
     
     return true;
   }
+  
+  /** Special implementation of BytesStartArray that keeps parallel arrays for {@link PerReaderTermState} */
+  static final class TermStateByteStart extends DirectBytesStartArray  {
+    PerReaderTermState[] termState;
+    
+    public TermStateByteStart(int initSize) {
+      super(initSize);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int[] init() {
+      final int[] ord = super.init();
+      termState = new PerReaderTermState[ArrayUtil.oversize(ord.length, RamUsageEstimator.NUM_BYTES_OBJECT_REF)];
+      assert termState.length >= ord.length;
+      return ord;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int[] grow() {
+      final int[] ord = super.grow();
+      if (termState.length < ord.length) {
+        PerReaderTermState[] tmpTermState = new PerReaderTermState[ArrayUtil.oversize(ord.length, RamUsageEstimator.NUM_BYTES_OBJECT_REF)];
+        System.arraycopy(termState, 0, tmpTermState, 0, termState.length);
+        termState = tmpTermState;
+      }      
+      assert termState.length >= ord.length;
+      return ord;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int[] clear() {
+     termState = null;
+     return super.clear();
+    }
+    
+  }
 }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FilteredTermsEnum.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FilteredTermsEnum.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FilteredTermsEnum.java	(working copy)
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import java.util.Comparator;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsAndPositionsEnum;
@@ -142,11 +143,6 @@
   }
 
   @Override
-  public long ord() throws IOException {
-    return tenum.ord();
-  }
-
-  @Override
   public DocsEnum docs(Bits bits, DocsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
     return tenum.docs(bits, reuse);
   }
@@ -155,12 +151,24 @@
   public DocsAndPositionsEnum docsAndPositions(Bits bits, DocsAndPositionsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
     return tenum.docsAndPositions(bits, reuse);
   }
-
+  
+  /** This enum does not support seeking!
+   * @throws UnsupportedOperationException
+   */
   @Override
-  public void cacheCurrentTerm() throws IOException {
-    tenum.cacheCurrentTerm();
+  public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, TermState state) throws IOException {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException(getClass().getName()+" does not support seeking");
   }
-    
+  
+  /**
+   * Returns the filtered enums term state 
+   */
+  @Override
+  public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+    assert tenum != null;
+    return tenum.termState();
+  }
+
   @SuppressWarnings("fallthrough")
   @Override
   public BytesRef next() throws IOException {
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FuzzyTermsEnum.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FuzzyTermsEnum.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/FuzzyTermsEnum.java	(working copy)
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsAndPositionsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Attribute;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeImpl;
@@ -245,11 +246,6 @@
   }
   
   @Override
-  public void cacheCurrentTerm() throws IOException {
-    actualEnum.cacheCurrentTerm();
-  }
-
-  @Override
   public DocsEnum docs(Bits skipDocs, DocsEnum reuse) throws IOException {
     return actualEnum.docs(skipDocs, reuse);
   }
@@ -260,14 +256,18 @@
     return actualEnum.docsAndPositions(skipDocs, reuse);
   }
   
+  public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, TermState state) throws IOException {
+    return actualEnum.seek(term, state);
+  }
+  
   @Override
-  public Comparator<BytesRef> getComparator() throws IOException {
-    return actualEnum.getComparator();
+  public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+    return actualEnum.termState();
   }
   
   @Override
-  public long ord() throws IOException {
-    return actualEnum.ord();
+  public Comparator<BytesRef> getComparator() throws IOException {
+    return actualEnum.getComparator();
   }
   
   @Override
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.java	(working copy)
@@ -126,8 +126,9 @@
    */
   @Override
   public void close() throws IOException {
-    if(closeReader)
+    if (closeReader) {
       reader.close();
+    }
   }
 
   // inherit javadoc
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/MultiTermQuery.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/MultiTermQuery.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/MultiTermQuery.java	(working copy)
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.PerReaderTermState;
 
 /**
  * An abstract {@link Query} that matches documents
@@ -159,8 +160,8 @@
     }
     
     @Override
-    protected void addClause(BooleanQuery topLevel, Term term, int docCount, float boost) {
-      final TermQuery tq = new TermQuery(term, docCount);
+    protected void addClause(BooleanQuery topLevel, Term term, int docCount, float boost, PerReaderTermState states) {
+      final TermQuery tq = new TermQuery(term, states);
       tq.setBoost(boost);
       topLevel.add(tq, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
     }
@@ -200,8 +201,8 @@
     }
     
     @Override
-    protected void addClause(BooleanQuery topLevel, Term term, int docFreq, float boost) {
-      final Query q = new ConstantScoreQuery(new QueryWrapperFilter(new TermQuery(term, docFreq)));
+    protected void addClause(BooleanQuery topLevel, Term term, int docFreq, float boost, PerReaderTermState states) {
+      final Query q = new ConstantScoreQuery(new QueryWrapperFilter(new TermQuery(term, states)));
       q.setBoost(boost);
       topLevel.add(q, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
     }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Query.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Query.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Query.java	(working copy)
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
       BooleanClause[] clauses = null;
       // check if we can split the query into clauses
       boolean splittable = (query instanceof BooleanQuery);
-      if(splittable){
+      if (splittable) {
         BooleanQuery bq = (BooleanQuery) query;
         splittable = bq.isCoordDisabled();
         clauses = bq.getClauses();
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
           splittable = (clauses[j].getOccur() == BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
         }
       }
-      if(splittable){
+      if (splittable) {
         for (int j = 0; j < clauses.length; j++) {
           uniques.add(clauses[j].getQuery());
         }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/ScoringRewrite.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/ScoringRewrite.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/ScoringRewrite.java	(working copy)
@@ -18,24 +18,18 @@
  */
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.Serializable;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.PriorityQueue;
-import java.util.Comparator;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.MultiTermQuery.RewriteMethod;
 
 import org.apache.lucene.util.ArrayUtil;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.ByteBlockPool;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRefHash;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.PerReaderTermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.RamUsageEstimator;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRefHash.DirectBytesStartArray;
 
@@ -62,11 +56,12 @@
     }
     
     @Override
-    protected void addClause(BooleanQuery topLevel, Term term, int docCount, float boost) {
-      final TermQuery tq = new TermQuery(term, docCount);
+    protected void addClause(BooleanQuery topLevel, Term term, int docCount,
+        float boost, PerReaderTermState states) {
+      final TermQuery tq = new TermQuery(term, states);
       tq.setBoost(boost);
-      topLevel.add(tq, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
-    }
+      topLevel.add(tq, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);      
+    }   
     
     @Override
     protected void checkMaxClauseCount(int count) {
@@ -77,7 +72,7 @@
     // Make sure we are still a singleton even after deserializing
     protected Object readResolve() {
       return SCORING_BOOLEAN_QUERY_REWRITE;
-    }    
+    }
   };
   
   /** Like {@link #SCORING_BOOLEAN_QUERY_REWRITE} except
@@ -123,13 +118,13 @@
     final int size = col.terms.size();
     if (size > 0) {
       final int sort[] = col.terms.sort(col.termsEnum.getComparator());
-      final int[] docFreq = col.array.docFreq;
       final float[] boost = col.array.boost;
+      final PerReaderTermState[] termStates = col.array.termState;
       for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
         final int pos = sort[i];
         final Term term = placeholderTerm.createTerm(col.terms.get(pos, new BytesRef()));
-        assert reader.docFreq(term) == docFreq[pos];
-        addClause(result, term, docFreq[pos], query.getBoost() * boost[pos]);
+        assert reader.docFreq(term) == termStates[pos].docFreq();
+        addClause(result, term, termStates[pos].docFreq(), query.getBoost() * boost[pos], termStates[pos]);
       }
     }
     query.incTotalNumberOfTerms(size);
@@ -152,15 +147,17 @@
     @Override
     public boolean collect(BytesRef bytes) throws IOException {
       final int e = terms.add(bytes);
+      final TermState state = termsEnum.termState();
+      assert state != null; 
       if (e < 0 ) {
         // duplicate term: update docFreq
         final int pos = (-e)-1;
-        array.docFreq[pos] += termsEnum.docFreq();
+        array.termState[pos].register(state, reader);
         assert array.boost[pos] == boostAtt.getBoost() : "boost should be equal in all segment TermsEnums";
       } else {
         // new entry: we populate the entry initially
-        array.docFreq[e] = termsEnum.docFreq();
         array.boost[e] = boostAtt.getBoost();
+        array.termState[e] = new PerReaderTermState(termStateReaderView, state, reader);
         ScoringRewrite.this.checkMaxClauseCount(terms.size());
       }
       return true;
@@ -169,8 +166,8 @@
   
   /** Special implementation of BytesStartArray that keeps parallel arrays for boost and docFreq */
   static final class TermFreqBoostByteStart extends DirectBytesStartArray  {
-    int[] docFreq;
     float[] boost;
+    PerReaderTermState[] termState;
     
     public TermFreqBoostByteStart(int initSize) {
       super(initSize);
@@ -180,24 +177,28 @@
     public int[] init() {
       final int[] ord = super.init();
       boost = new float[ArrayUtil.oversize(ord.length, RamUsageEstimator.NUM_BYTES_FLOAT)];
-      docFreq = new int[ArrayUtil.oversize(ord.length, RamUsageEstimator.NUM_BYTES_INT)];
-      assert boost.length >= ord.length && docFreq.length >= ord.length;
+      termState = new PerReaderTermState[ArrayUtil.oversize(ord.length, RamUsageEstimator.NUM_BYTES_OBJECT_REF)];
+      assert termState.length >= ord.length && boost.length >= ord.length;
       return ord;
     }
 
     @Override
     public int[] grow() {
       final int[] ord = super.grow();
-      docFreq = ArrayUtil.grow(docFreq, ord.length);
       boost = ArrayUtil.grow(boost, ord.length);
-      assert boost.length >= ord.length && docFreq.length >= ord.length;
+      if (termState.length < ord.length) {
+        PerReaderTermState[] tmpTermState = new PerReaderTermState[ArrayUtil.oversize(ord.length, RamUsageEstimator.NUM_BYTES_OBJECT_REF)];
+        System.arraycopy(termState, 0, tmpTermState, 0, termState.length);
+        termState = tmpTermState;
+      }     
+      assert termState.length >= ord.length && boost.length >= ord.length;
       return ord;
     }
 
     @Override
     public int[] clear() {
      boost = null;
-     docFreq = null;
+     termState = null;
      return super.clear();
     }
     
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TermCollectingRewrite.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TermCollectingRewrite.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TermCollectingRewrite.java	(working copy)
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
  */
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Comparator;
 
@@ -30,21 +30,29 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.PerReaderTermState;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.PerReaderTermState.ReaderView;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.ReaderUtil;
 
 abstract class TermCollectingRewrite<Q extends Query> extends MultiTermQuery.RewriteMethod {
   
+  
   /** Return a suitable top-level Query for holding all expanded terms. */
   protected abstract Q getTopLevelQuery() throws IOException;
   
   /** Add a MultiTermQuery term to the top-level query */
-  protected abstract void addClause(Q topLevel, Term term, int docCount, float boost) throws IOException;
+  protected final void addClause(Q topLevel, Term term, int docCount, float boost) throws IOException {
+    addClause(topLevel, term, docCount, boost, null);
+  }
+  
+  protected abstract void addClause(Q topLevel, Term term, int docCount, float boost, PerReaderTermState states) throws IOException;
+
   
   protected final void collectTerms(IndexReader reader, MultiTermQuery query, TermCollector collector) throws IOException {
     final List<IndexReader> subReaders = new ArrayList<IndexReader>();
     ReaderUtil.gatherSubReaders(subReaders, reader);
     Comparator<BytesRef> lastTermComp = null;
-    
+    collector.subReaders(subReaders);
     for (IndexReader r : subReaders) {
       final Fields fields = r.fields();
       if (fields == null) {
@@ -71,9 +79,9 @@
       lastTermComp = newTermComp;
       
       collector.setNextEnum(termsEnum);
+      collector.setNextReader(r);
       BytesRef bytes;
       while ((bytes = termsEnum.next()) != null) {
-        termsEnum.cacheCurrentTerm();
         if (!collector.collect(bytes))
           return; // interrupt whole term collection, so also don't iterate other subReaders
       }
@@ -81,6 +89,12 @@
   }
   
   protected static abstract class TermCollector {
+    protected IndexReader reader;
+    protected ReaderView termStateReaderView;
+
+    public void subReaders(Collection<IndexReader> readers) {
+      termStateReaderView = new ReaderView(readers);
+    }
     /** attributes used for communication with the enum */
     public final AttributeSource attributes = new AttributeSource();
   
@@ -89,5 +103,9 @@
     
     /** the next segment's {@link TermsEnum} that is used to collect terms */
     public abstract void setNextEnum(TermsEnum termsEnum) throws IOException;
+    
+    public void setNextReader(IndexReader reader) {
+      this.reader = reader;
+    }
   }
 }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TermQuery.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TermQuery.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TermQuery.java	(working copy)
@@ -23,7 +23,11 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Terms;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Explanation.IDFExplanation;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.PerReaderTermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.ToStringUtils;
 
 /** A Query that matches documents containing a term.
@@ -31,15 +35,16 @@
   */
 public class TermQuery extends Query {
   private final Term term;
-  private final int docFreq;
+  private int docFreq;
+  private transient PerReaderTermState perReaderTermState;
 
   private class TermWeight extends Weight {
     private final Similarity similarity;
     private float value;
-    private float idf;
+    private final float idf;
     private float queryNorm;
     private float queryWeight;
-    private IDFExplanation idfExp;
+    private final IDFExplanation idfExp;
 
     public TermWeight(Searcher searcher)
       throws IOException {
@@ -76,17 +81,34 @@
 
     @Override
     public Scorer scorer(IndexReader reader, boolean scoreDocsInOrder, boolean topScorer) throws IOException {
-      DocsEnum docs = reader.termDocsEnum(reader.getDeletedDocs(),
-                                          term.field(),
-                                          term.bytes());
-
-      if (docs == null) {
-        return null;
+      final String field = term.field();
+      final BytesRef bytes = term.bytes();
+      final DocsEnum docs = getDocsEnum(reader, field, bytes);
+      return (docs == null) ? null : new TermScorer(this, docs, similarity, reader.norms(field));
+    }
+    
+    private DocsEnum getDocsEnum(IndexReader reader, String field, BytesRef bytes) throws IOException {
+      if (perReaderTermState != null) {
+        final int ord;
+        if ((ord = perReaderTermState.lookup(reader)) != -1) {
+          final TermState state = perReaderTermState.get(ord);
+          if (state == null) { // term is not present in that reader
+            assert termNotInReader(reader, field, bytes);
+            return null;
+          }
+          return reader.termDocsEnum(reader.getDeletedDocs(), field, bytes, state);  
+        } 
       }
-
-      return new TermScorer(this, docs, similarity, reader.norms(term.field()));
+      return reader.termDocsEnum(reader.getDeletedDocs(), field, bytes);   
     }
-
+    
+    private boolean termNotInReader(IndexReader reader, String field, BytesRef bytes) throws IOException {
+      // only called from assert
+      final Terms terms = reader.terms(field);
+      return terms != null ? terms.docFreq(bytes) == 0 : true;
+    }
+    
+   
     @Override
     public Explanation explain(IndexReader reader, int doc)
       throws IOException {
@@ -174,6 +196,17 @@
   public TermQuery(Term t, int docFreq) {
     term = t;
     this.docFreq = docFreq;
+    perReaderTermState = null;
+  }
+  
+  /** Expert: constructs a TermQuery that will use the
+   *  provided docFreq instead of looking up the docFreq
+   *  against the searcher. */
+  public TermQuery(Term t, PerReaderTermState states) {
+    assert states != null;
+    term = t;
+    docFreq = states.docFreq();
+    perReaderTermState = states;
   }
 
   /** Returns the term of this query. */
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TopTermsRewrite.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TopTermsRewrite.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TopTermsRewrite.java	(working copy)
@@ -25,9 +25,11 @@
 
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.ArrayUtil;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.PerReaderTermState;
 
 /**
  * Base rewrite method for collecting only the top terms
@@ -78,12 +80,12 @@
         this.termComp = termsEnum.getComparator();
         // lazy init the initial ScoreTerm because comparator is not known on ctor:
         if (st == null)
-          st = new ScoreTerm(this.termComp);
+          st = new ScoreTerm(this.termComp, new PerReaderTermState(this.termStateReaderView));
         boostAtt = termsEnum.attributes().addAttribute(BoostAttribute.class);
       }
     
       @Override
-      public boolean collect(BytesRef bytes) {
+      public boolean collect(BytesRef bytes) throws IOException {
         final float boost = boostAtt.getBoost();
         // ignore uncompetetive hits
         if (stQueue.size() == maxSize) {
@@ -94,23 +96,27 @@
             return true;
         }
         ScoreTerm t = visitedTerms.get(bytes);
+        final TermState state = termsEnum.termState();
+        assert state != null;
         if (t != null) {
           // if the term is already in the PQ, only update docFreq of term in PQ
-          t.docFreq += termsEnum.docFreq();
           assert t.boost == boost : "boost should be equal in all segment TermsEnums";
+          t.termState.register(state, reader);
         } else {
           // add new entry in PQ, we must clone the term, else it may get overwritten!
           st.bytes.copy(bytes);
           st.boost = boost;
-          st.docFreq = termsEnum.docFreq();
           visitedTerms.put(st.bytes, st);
+          assert st.termState.docFreq() == 0;
+          st.termState.register(state, reader);
           stQueue.offer(st);
           // possibly drop entries from queue
           if (stQueue.size() > maxSize) {
             st = stQueue.poll();
             visitedTerms.remove(st.bytes);
+            st.termState.clear(); // reset the termstate! 
           } else {
-            st = new ScoreTerm(termComp);
+            st = new ScoreTerm(termComp, new PerReaderTermState(this.termStateReaderView));
           }
           assert stQueue.size() <= maxSize : "the PQ size must be limited to maxSize";
           // set maxBoostAtt with values to help FuzzyTermsEnum to optimize
@@ -120,6 +126,7 @@
             maxBoostAtt.setCompetitiveTerm(t.bytes);
           }
         }
+       
         return true;
       }
     });
@@ -130,8 +137,8 @@
     ArrayUtil.quickSort(scoreTerms, scoreTermSortByTermComp);
     for (final ScoreTerm st : scoreTerms) {
       final Term term = placeholderTerm.createTerm(st.bytes);
-      assert reader.docFreq(term) == st.docFreq;
-      addClause(q, term, st.docFreq, query.getBoost() * st.boost); // add to query
+      assert reader.docFreq(term) == st.termState.docFreq() : "reader DF is " + reader.docFreq(term) + " vs " + st.termState.docFreq();
+      addClause(q, term, st.termState.docFreq(), query.getBoost() * st.boost, st.termState); // add to query
     }
     query.incTotalNumberOfTerms(scoreTerms.length);
     return q;
@@ -147,7 +154,7 @@
     if (this == obj) return true;
     if (obj == null) return false;
     if (getClass() != obj.getClass()) return false;
-    final TopTermsRewrite other = (TopTermsRewrite) obj;
+    final TopTermsRewrite<?> other = (TopTermsRewrite<?>) obj;
     if (size != other.size) return false;
     return true;
   }
@@ -163,13 +170,12 @@
 
   static final class ScoreTerm implements Comparable<ScoreTerm> {
     public final Comparator<BytesRef> termComp;
-
     public final BytesRef bytes = new BytesRef();
     public float boost;
-    public int docFreq;
-    
-    public ScoreTerm(Comparator<BytesRef> termComp) {
+    public final PerReaderTermState termState;
+    public ScoreTerm(Comparator<BytesRef> termComp, PerReaderTermState termState) {
       this.termComp = termComp;
+      this.termState = termState;
     }
     
     public int compareTo(ScoreTerm other) {
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/cache/DocTermsIndexCreator.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/cache/DocTermsIndexCreator.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/cache/DocTermsIndexCreator.java	(working copy)
@@ -24,8 +24,10 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.MultiFields;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Terms;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PrefixCodedTermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.DocIdSetIterator;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.FieldCache.DocTermsIndex;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.ArrayUtil;
@@ -284,21 +286,11 @@
       }
 
       @Override
-      public void cacheCurrentTerm() throws IOException {
-        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
-      }
-
-      @Override
       public BytesRef term() throws IOException {
         return term;
       }
 
       @Override
-      public long ord() throws IOException {
-        return currentOrd;
-      }
-
-      @Override
       public int docFreq() {
         throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
       }
@@ -317,6 +309,24 @@
       public Comparator<BytesRef> getComparator() throws IOException {
         throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
       }
+
+      @Override
+      public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term /*ignored*/, TermState state) throws IOException {
+        assert state != null && state instanceof PrefixCodedTermState;
+        return this.seek(((PrefixCodedTermState)state).ord);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+        PrefixCodedTermState state = new PrefixCodedTermState() {
+          @Override
+          public int docFreq() {
+            throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+          }
+        };
+        state.ord = currentOrd;
+        return state;
+      }
     }
   }
 }
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spans/SpanMultiTermQueryWrapper.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spans/SpanMultiTermQueryWrapper.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spans/SpanMultiTermQueryWrapper.java	(working copy)
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TopTermsRewrite;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.ScoringRewrite;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanClause.Occur; // javadocs only
+import org.apache.lucene.util.PerReaderTermState;
 
 /**
  * Wraps any {@link MultiTermQuery} as a {@link SpanQuery}, 
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@
       }
     
       @Override
-      protected void addClause(SpanOrQuery topLevel, Term term, int docCount, float boost) {
+      protected void addClause(SpanOrQuery topLevel, Term term, int docCount, float boost, PerReaderTermState states) {
         final SpanTermQuery q = new SpanTermQuery(term);
         q.setBoost(boost);
         topLevel.addClause(q);
@@ -202,7 +203,7 @@
         }
 
         @Override
-        protected void addClause(SpanOrQuery topLevel, Term term, int docFreq, float boost) {
+        protected void addClause(SpanOrQuery topLevel, Term term, int docFreq, float boost, PerReaderTermState states) {
           final SpanTermQuery q = new SpanTermQuery(term);
           q.setBoost(boost);
           topLevel.addClause(q);
Index: lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/PerReaderTermState.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/PerReaderTermState.java	(revision 0)
+++ lucene/src/java/org/apache/lucene/util/PerReaderTermState.java	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
+package org.apache.lucene.util;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.WeakHashMap;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Fields;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Terms;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum.SeekStatus;
+
+/**
+ * Maintains a {@link IndexReader} {@link TermState} view over
+ * {@link IndexReader} instances containing a single term. The
+ * {@link PerReaderTermState} doesn't track if the given {@link TermState}
+ * objects are valid, neither if the {@link TermState} instances refer to the
+ * same terms in the associated readers.
+ * 
+ * @lucene.experimental
+ */
+public final class PerReaderTermState {
+
+  private final TermState[] states;
+  private int docFreq;
+  private final ReaderView view;
+
+  /**
+   * Creates an empty {@link PerReaderTermState} from a {@link ReaderView}
+   */
+  public PerReaderTermState(ReaderView view) {
+    docFreq = 0;
+    this.view = view;
+    states = new TermState[view.size()];
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Creates a {@link PerReaderTermState} with an initial {@link TermState},
+   * {@link IndexReader} pair.
+   */
+  public PerReaderTermState(ReaderView view, TermState state, IndexReader reader) {
+    this(view);
+    register(state, reader);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Creates a {@link PerReaderTermState} from an {@link IndexReader} and the
+   * given {@link Term} This method will gather all of the {@link IndexReader}s
+   * sub-readers and register each of the sub-readers in the
+   * {@link PerReaderTermState} is the term is present in the sub-reader.
+   */
+  public static PerReaderTermState build(IndexReader topLevel, Term term)
+      throws IOException {
+    final List<IndexReader> allSubReaders = new ArrayList<IndexReader>();
+    final String field = term.field();
+    final BytesRef bytes = term.bytes();
+    ReaderUtil.gatherSubReaders(allSubReaders, topLevel);
+    final PerReaderTermState perReaderTermState = new PerReaderTermState(
+        new ReaderView(allSubReaders));
+    for (IndexReader indexReader : allSubReaders) {
+      final Fields fields = indexReader.fields();
+      if (fields != null) {
+        final Terms terms = fields.terms(field);
+        if (terms != null) {
+          TermsEnum termsEnum = terms.iterator();
+          if (SeekStatus.FOUND == termsEnum.seek(bytes, false)) { // no cache
+                                                                  // here!
+            final TermState termState = termsEnum.termState();
+            perReaderTermState.register(termState, indexReader);
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return perReaderTermState;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Clears the {@link PerReaderTermState} internal state and removes all
+   * registered {@link TermState}s
+   */
+  public void clear() {
+    docFreq = 0;
+    Arrays.fill(states, null);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Registers and associates a {@link TermState} with an {@link IndexReader}.
+   */
+  public void register(TermState state, IndexReader reader) {
+    assert state != null : "state must not be null";
+    final int readerId = view.ord(reader);
+    assert readerId >= 0 && readerId < states.length;
+    assert states[readerId] == null : "state for reader: " + readerId
+        + " already registered";
+    docFreq += state.docFreq();
+    states[readerId] = state;
+
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns a readers ordinal to use with {@link #get(int)} to obtain the
+   * {@link TermState} for that reader or <tt>-1</tt> if this reader is not part
+   * of the view.
+   */
+  public int lookup(IndexReader reader) {
+    return view.ord(reader);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the {@link TermState} for the given readers ord or null if no
+   * {@link TermState} for the reader was registered
+   * 
+   * @param ord
+   *          the readers ordinal to get the {@link TermState} for.
+   * @see #lookup(IndexReader)
+   * @return the {@link TermState} for the given readers ord or null if no
+   *         {@link TermState} for the reader was registered
+   */
+  public TermState get(int ord) {
+    assert ord >= 0 && ord < states.length;
+    return states[ord];
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @return the accumulated document frequency of all {@link TermState}
+   *         instances passed to {@link #register(TermState, IndexReader)}.
+   */
+  public int docFreq() {
+    return docFreq;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A {@link IndexReader} view that maps a given reader collection to an
+   * ordinal. This class is typically used to construct one or more
+   * {@link PerReaderTermState} instances to share the reader to ordinal mapping
+   * across multiple instances.
+   * <p>
+   * The view maintains a reader to ordinal mapping with weak references such
+   * that {@link IndexReader} references are available for garbage collection
+   * once they are not in ordinary use anymore.
+   * 
+   */
+  public static final class ReaderView {
+    private final WeakHashMap<IndexReader, Integer> readerMapping = new WeakHashMap<IndexReader, Integer>();
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new {@link ReaderView}
+     */
+    public ReaderView(Collection<IndexReader> readers) {
+      int i = 0;
+      for (IndexReader indexReader : readers) {
+        readerMapping.put(indexReader, Integer.valueOf(i++));
+      }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the readers ordinal or <tt>-1</tt> if the reader isn't in the
+     * view.
+     * 
+     * @param reader
+     *          the reader to look up.
+     * @return Returns the readers ordinal or <tt>-1</tt> if the reader isn't in
+     *         the view.
+     */
+    public int ord(IndexReader reader) {
+      Integer id = readerMapping.get(reader);
+      return id == null ? -1 : id.intValue();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the number of readers in the view
+     * 
+     * @return the number of readers in the view
+     */
+    public int size() {
+      return readerMapping.size();
+    }
+  }
+
+}
Index: lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/TestExternalCodecs.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/TestExternalCodecs.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/TestExternalCodecs.java	(working copy)
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
  */
 
 import org.apache.lucene.util.*;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.*;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.*;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.*;
@@ -314,11 +315,6 @@
       }
 
       @Override
-      public long ord() {
-        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
-      }
-
-      @Override
       public BytesRef term() {
         // TODO: reuse BytesRef
         return new BytesRef(current);
@@ -330,10 +326,6 @@
       }
 
       @Override
-      public void cacheCurrentTerm() {
-      }
-
-      @Override
       public DocsEnum docs(Bits skipDocs, DocsEnum reuse) {
         return new RAMDocsEnum(ramField.termToDocs.get(current), skipDocs);
       }
@@ -342,6 +334,26 @@
       public DocsAndPositionsEnum docsAndPositions(Bits skipDocs, DocsAndPositionsEnum reuse) {
         return new RAMDocsAndPositionsEnum(ramField.termToDocs.get(current), skipDocs);
       }
+
+      @Override
+      public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, TermState state) throws IOException {
+        assert term != null;
+        return seek(term);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+        return new TermState() {
+          private int docFreq = RAMTermsEnum.this.docFreq();
+          @Override
+          public int docFreq() {
+            return docFreq;
+          }
+          @Override
+          public void copy(TermState other) {
+          }
+        };
+      }
     }
 
     private static class RAMDocsEnum extends DocsEnum {
Index: lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestFlex.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestFlex.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestFlex.java	(working copy)
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.store.*;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.*;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.*;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PrefixCodedTermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.*;
 
 public class TestFlex extends LuceneTestCase {
@@ -71,7 +72,9 @@
     IndexReader r = w.getReader();
     TermsEnum terms = r.getSequentialSubReaders()[0].fields().terms("f").iterator();
     assertTrue(terms.next() != null);
-    assertEquals(0, terms.ord());
+    TermState termState = terms.termState();
+    assertTrue(termState instanceof PrefixCodedTermState);
+    assertEquals(0, ((PrefixCodedTermState)termState).ord());
     r.close();
     w.close();
     d.close();
Index: lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestSegmentTermEnum.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestSegmentTermEnum.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestSegmentTermEnum.java	(working copy)
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriterConfig.OpenMode;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PrefixCodedTermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
 
 
@@ -82,11 +83,17 @@
     assertNotNull(terms.next());
     assertEquals("aaa", terms.term().utf8ToString());
     assertNotNull(terms.next());
-    long ordB = terms.ord();
+    final BytesRef currentTerm = terms.term();
+    final TermState state = terms.termState();
     assertEquals("bbb", terms.term().utf8ToString());
     assertNull(terms.next());
-
-    assertEquals(TermsEnum.SeekStatus.FOUND, terms.seek(ordB));
+    assertTrue(state instanceof PrefixCodedTermState);
+    PrefixCodedTermState stdTermState = ((PrefixCodedTermState)state);
+    if (random.nextBoolean()) {
+      assertEquals(TermsEnum.SeekStatus.FOUND, terms.seek(stdTermState.ord()));      
+    } else {
+      assertEquals(TermsEnum.SeekStatus.FOUND, terms.seek(currentTerm, stdTermState));  
+    }
     assertEquals("bbb", terms.term().utf8ToString());
     reader.close();
   }
Index: lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestMultiSearcher.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestMultiSearcher.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestMultiSearcher.java	(working copy)
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -309,11 +310,10 @@
         hits=indexSearcher1.search(query, null, 1000).scoreDocs;
         
         assertEquals(message, 2, hits.length);
-        
         // Store the scores for use later
         float[] scores={ hits[0].score, hits[1].score };
         
-        assertTrue(message, scores[0] > scores[1]);
+        assertTrue(message + " " + Arrays.toString(scores), scores[0] > scores[1]);
         
         indexSearcher1.close();
         ramDirectory1.close();
Index: lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/util/automaton/fst/TestFSTs.java
===================================================================
--- lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/util/automaton/fst/TestFSTs.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/util/automaton/fst/TestFSTs.java	(working copy)
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Terms;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.CodecProvider;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.codecs.PrefixCodedTermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.IndexInput;
@@ -958,11 +959,7 @@
       int ord = 0;
       while((term = termsEnum.next()) != null) {
         if (ord == 0) {
-          try {
-            termsEnum.ord();
-          } catch (UnsupportedOperationException uoe) {
-            storeOrd = false;
-          }
+          storeOrd = termsEnum.termState() instanceof PrefixCodedTermState;
         }
         final int output;
         if (storeOrd) {
@@ -1035,7 +1032,7 @@
       assertEquals(termsEnum.term(), fstEnum.current().input);
       if (storeOrd) {
         // fst stored the ord
-        assertEquals(termsEnum.ord(), ((Long) fstEnum.current().output).longValue());
+        assertEquals(((PrefixCodedTermState)termsEnum.termState()).ord(), ((Long) fstEnum.current().output).longValue());
       } else {
         // fst stored the docFreq
         assertEquals(termsEnum.docFreq(), (int) (((Long) fstEnum.current().output).longValue()));
Index: solr/src/java/org/apache/solr/request/UnInvertedField.java
===================================================================
--- solr/src/java/org/apache/solr/request/UnInvertedField.java	(revision 1051521)
+++ solr/src/java/org/apache/solr/request/UnInvertedField.java	(working copy)
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DocsAndPositionsEnum;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.TermState;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.TermsEnum;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Terms;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.MultiFields;
@@ -1001,10 +1002,6 @@
     return tenum.docFreq();
   }
 
-  @Override
-  public void cacheCurrentTerm() {
-    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
-  }
 
   public BytesRef skipTo(BytesRef target) throws IOException {
 
@@ -1091,11 +1088,6 @@
   }
 
   @Override
-  public long ord() {
-    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
-  }
-
-  @Override
   public SeekStatus seek(long ord) {
     throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
   }
@@ -1114,6 +1106,18 @@
   public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef target, boolean useCache) {
     throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
   }
+
+
+  @Override
+  public SeekStatus seek(BytesRef term, TermState state) throws IOException {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+  }
+
+
+  @Override
+  public TermState termState() throws IOException {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+  }
 }
 
 
