That hasn't been my experience at all. I wrote a quick little python script that used mapscript to produce the same five maps twice, once with agg and once with gd. The mapfiles were identical, except for the outputformat section, and the times were within 2% of each other.
Rob McCulley -----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Cole Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] GD vs AGG performance... Perhaps it's too early to discuss performance differences, but I was curious if the current AGG rendering speed is what to expect. Looking at a few of my mapfiles, AGG is aprox 5 times slower than GD on MS5 (with MS4 GD just a hair faster than MS5 GD). The maps look great, but after spending a lot of time getting maps below 100ms, it's hurts to see them over a second again :-( Just want my cake and get to eat it too :-) Thanks, John -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GD-vs-AGG-performance...-tf4319265.html#a12299688 Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
