Hi Paul, thanks for your clarifications. I did indeed only explained how the DENSE allocator works, because that was the way it worked back then. I now think I failed to make that clear. I should have focused more on how Imposm works instead of reasoning why we wrote it.
On 18.06.2014, at 18:44, Paul Norman wrote: […] > While re-checking the presentation for memory usage, I noted a mistake about > flat-nodes. Flat nodes is not like normal mode, it is part of slim mode, but > with the nodes table moved from PostgreSQL to on disk. I was referring to how it allocated/writes the nodes: as a 'simple list' instead of a database. Cheers, Oliver _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

