Speed up indexing through granular removal of existing data #127
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It kind of irked me to delete entire documents before updating them. So I tried an option that just removes existing data instead of removing the entire document.
Turns out this is great for performance: I'm seeing a 6-7% speed increase in the indexing benchmark when running it as an update of an existing index, and an 8% speed increase when only inserting. Not sure why, but it works :)