[geos-devel] Benchmark between various geometry libraries

[strk]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:02:13AM -0800, Martin Davis wrote:
> Thanks for clarifying this, Hartmut.  This makes good sense to me.  In 
> my (admittedly limited and dated) experience, the C/C++ heap allocator 
> (good ol' malloc still, right?) is pretty slow.  From what you're saying 
> stack allocation is substantially faster.
> 
> The kind of change you indicated should be fairly simple to make in the 
> GEOS codebase.

I occasionally did rounds of such cleanups, but I think more time is spent
in copying read-only coordinates for the sake of memory management
while the JTS counterpart passes pointers around and delegates memory management
to the garbage collector.

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