Jochen Topf wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:06:59PM +1100, Brett Henderson wrote: > >> However it should be very fast now. I recently implemented a change to >> keep the date as a string internally (I thought I sent you an email >> about this, could be wrong). If it is written to xml again the previous >> date string is used unchanged. If it is written to something like a >> database then the string will be parsed when it is required. Even if >> parsing does occur, the custom code used internally is orders of >> magnitude faster than standard java xml date parsing classes. It is the >> same code I submitted for JOSM though so has been around for some time now. >> > > So can we get rid of the option? > It is still useful if the input file doesn't include timestamps. I remember somebody using that recently. I'll add a comment to the wiki to let people know it isn't useful for speed any more.
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