With this organization, scanning of long postings lists during query processing can usually be terminated early when weights have become so small that any further documents can be predicted to be of low similarity to the query (see Chapter 6). In a docID-sorted index, new documents are always inserted at the end of postings lists. In an impact-sorted index (Section 7.1.5, page 140), the insertion can occur anywhere, thus complicating the update of the inverted index.