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+- Omitting norms in LSH and sparse indexed queries. 
+  This shaves ~15% of runtime off of a sparse indexed benchmark. 
+  Results for LSH weren't as meaningful unfortunately.   
+---
 - Removed the internal vector caching and instead using `sun.misc.Unsafe` to speed up vector serialization and deserialization.
   The result is actually faster queries _without_ caching than it previously had _with_ caching.
   Also able to remove the protobuf dependency which was previously used to serialize vectors.
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-0.1.0-PRE18
+0.1.0-PRE19