Hi all,
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:50 -0500, Allen Bierbaum wrote:
> Patrick Daehne wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >it seems that this whole multi-indexing discussion is an ideological
> discussion, because there are no real strong arguments for multi-
> indexing or against multi-indexing. Therefore, to stop that fruitless
> diskussion, I would like to ask the project leader to make a decision.
That would be me, then. ;)
> Concluding, I just would like to mention that
> >
> >- we have a working multi-indexing implementation.
> >- it is no problem to convert a multi-indexed geometry to a single-
> indexed-geometry, but the other way is quite expensive.
> >- it is quite easy to integrate the proposed changes into the multi-
> indexing implementation.
> >
> >
> Agreed. The patches I have right now do not use multi-index but I
> think
> I can update them fairly easily to use multi-index if that is the
> direction everyone decides upon. I just need to know which way to
> implement it.
My main problem is finding a good enough reason for multi-indexing text
geometry to warrant the complications of it. Text is effectively write
only anyway, getting anything out of the text geometry is not effective,
so manipulations of text don't seem to matter much. Given that text is
so small anyway, the memory savings don't seem to be worth the effort
either.
I appreciate that you went through the pain of writing the multi-index
code, but I don't think text really needs it. So given that Allen has
already done the changes, I'm inclined to accept them as they are (in
fact, the rebuild is running right now).
> I really never thought such a small change would spark
> such a large discussion. :)
Me neither, honestly. :)
Yours
Dirk
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