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"Alex Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wouldn't plan to touch the back-end DB (is it MySQL atm?) - just write a
> for-comparison C++ API - and if it's not faster, or it's considerably more
> obfuscated and harder to maintain, then it can be left to decompose quietly,
> unused... ;-)
It is MySQL yes.
> I think the task is something sufficiently straightforward that the C++ can
> be made very user-friendly and pretty easy to maintain. I think we'll have a
> look at developing the Apache module and you can all see what you think
> if/when it's done...
I would certainly hope to see well structured and easy to maintain code ;-)
It's not all about straight line speed either, it's also about things
like memory consumption as the current API is absolutely horrible in
that regard which severely limits the number of requests we can process
at a time.
So think about how you can generate the results for a map call and
return them to a client while holding as little state as possible in
memory if you want to do a good job.
Tom
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