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

[Chapman, Martin]

-- Has anyone profiled the code recently,  without profiling statistics
optimization discussions are really just guesswork.
I certainly agree with that statement.

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Vine [mailto:nhv at cape.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 5:52 PM
To: GEOS Development List
Subject: RE: [geos-devel] JTS/GEOS performance - smart-ptr vs ref
counting


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 
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