[geos-devel] [GEOS] #343: After applying a buffer over a multiline the library starts growing in memory usage and hungs

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 13/05/10 17:22, Martin Davis wrote:
> At the moment I haven't spent much time thinking about how to detect
> these cases automatically. Of course it would be possible to switch to
> using an automated buffer-and-union approach if this could be detected.
> But this seems like such a pathological case I'm not sure it's worth
> penalizing all other buffer users just to handle it.

IMHO, documentation-backed and brain-driven automatic detection
should be enough to solve this case.

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net