Hi, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > Geez, this conversation is making me want to rewrite the API from scratch in > another language.
What shall I say... if you travel a few hundred kilometres North-North-East you'll reach a little country with lots of malcontent but well-funded mappers who are happily hacking away at the future of OSM. I think they're running MonetDB. No honestly, I firmly believe that the full API will one day be done in C/C++. I hear the map call has already been reimplemented in C++ to big performance gains and my assumption is that it is only a matter of time until we see that in production use, followed slowly but steadily be re-implementations of all but the most seldom-used API calls. I would not be surprised if we had a mixed C/C++ and Rails production environment, with Rails being used for the more esoteric calls or new additions, and C/C++ for the parts that must be efficient (and that don't get changed every day). Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
