src/Lucene.Net/Search/BulkScorer.cs

namespace Lucene.Net.Search
{
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    /// <summary>
    /// This class is used to score a range of documents at
    /// once, and is returned by <see cref="Weight.GetBulkScorer(Index.AtomicReaderContext, bool, Util.IBits)"/>.  Only
    /// queries that have a more optimized means of scoring
    /// across a range of documents need to override this.
    /// Otherwise, a default implementation is wrapped around
    /// the <see cref="Scorer"/> returned by <see cref="Weight.GetScorer(Index.AtomicReaderContext, Util.IBits)"/>.
    /// </summary>

    public abstract class BulkScorer
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Scores and collects all matching documents. </summary>
        /// <param name="collector"> The collector to which all matching documents are passed. </param>
        public virtual void Score(ICollector collector)
        {
            Score(collector, int.MaxValue);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Collects matching documents in a range.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="collector"> The collector to which all matching documents are passed. </param>
        /// <param name="max"> Score up to, but not including, this doc </param>
        /// <returns> <c>true</c> if more matching documents may remain. </returns>
        public abstract bool Score(ICollector collector, int max);
    }
}