Hi Helder, "Helder Magalhães" <[email protected]> wrote on 12/23/2008 07:15:39 AM:
> > Thomas, your patch works perfect. I will run some benchmarks to test > > performance for our needs but regardless I very much appreciate you looking > > into this and clarifying the issue. > > Would it be possible to share the benchmarking results to the list > afterward so this particular change could possibly be committed to the > trunk? I second this request. > (If, as Thomas hinted, it wouldn't hurt performance much, of course.) Actually I hinted it would hurt performance, I suspect a fair amount. Of course in his case he doesn't have much choice. > I'm don't know if doing some memory measurements would also be a good > idea, for comparing the difference and watch for a possible regression > in terms of memory usage... ;-) Yes, it's possible that for lots of complex geometry the Area class will use significantly more memory.
