[gdal-dev] limiting drivers that get registered

Ben Elliston ben.elliston at anu.edu.au
Tue Mar 27 03:51:46 PDT 2018


On 27/03/18 21:49, Even Rouault wrote:

> Hum why would you need to call GDALAllRegister() if you already manually 
> registered some of them ?

Because reordering the driver list by placing commonly used drivers at
the head of the list makes a significant difference in the time taken to
open files.

> Well, call GDALAllRegister() and then query GDALGetDriverByName(driver_name). 
> You can unregister a driver with GDALDeregisterDriver()

Thanks -- you've given me an idea ..

Cheers, Ben


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