[geos-devel] Building Multipolygons from Rings

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:13:51AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Is there a way how I can somehow pre-process my 100k node polygon to
> make the "contains" queries go faster? I have the impression that
> "contains" must do some preprocessing internally, and that maybe the
> same preprocessing is repeated unnecessarily if I do 10,000
> "contains" checks for the same polygon?

Take a look at the Prepared geometry interfaces.

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