[geos-devel] JTS/GEOS performance - smart-ptr vs ref counting

[Norman Vine]

Martin Davis writes:
> 
> 
> That was pretty much my point - smart pointers alone don't produce
> memory efficiency, they just make the code safer (and hopefully easier).

Well they are a little faster then any garbage collection routine could ever
be but you are right 'speed issues' aren't why they are used.

Has anyone profiled the code recently,  without profiling statistics
optimization discussions are really just guesswork.

Norman