On Oct 19, 2012, at 9:24 AM, Paweł Paprota <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just simply don't have server resources to work with anything larger than a > Europe dump which already is crawling on the hardware I've got available. Did you try to get a dev account? Not sure whether that gets you servers that are powerful enough. OSM US servers might also be suitable, send me an email if you're interested. > >> However, XML parsing (and gzip compression) are heavily CPU >> intensive. Thus, it might be a good idea to retain these in C++ or >> getting done in carefully chosen external libraries. >> > > It would be interesting to see what is the overhead of Ruby when parsing with > libxml-ruby (or Nokogiri which is another thin layer on top of libxml) > compared to C/C++. > > Maybe another way to go would be to use PBF which is supposed to be much > faster for machine reading. > > Paweł > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
