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Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was wondering whether the gpx_import code would be a valid target for
> improvement? I know people complain fairly often that the importer is
> backlogged. The code itself seems to be fairly straight forward and has
> well defined input & outputs.
That is certainly something that could be rewritten in a compiled
language for efficiency, yes.
There is quite a bit of scope for improving the ruby code I suspect
if only by using libxml2 to parse the trace instead of rexml. That
said, given the stability of the ruby libxml2 bindings a rewrite
in C might be better ;-)
Tom
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