[Benchmarking] split contour files are different

[Jason Birch]

In the real world, decent integrators would ETL the data into the
optimal format for the rendering server, generalize the data for
display at different levels, etc, to achieve the highest-possible
performance.

This test isn't about real world, it's about taking a set of arbitrary
data and benchmarking against it. Some servers will be hindered,
others will benefit. The only real conclusion that can be drawn from
non-best-effort tests is that the server was good or poor at serving
some particular data configuration.
Nothing wrong with this as long as the parameters are understood, but
it's not a great metric for potential implementors to be using when
deciding what system to use.

Jason

On 2010-07-26, Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 July 2010 00:58:11 Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> there are many ways to work around this, but, that would not be a real
>> world case.  For no reason ever would i use 8 different layers for one
>> contour file, this is not optimal performance.
>
> The real world case is 4000 shapefiles for the contour lines. Each from a
> different year, different source, and different fields set to null.
>
>
> I would have happily merged all the contours in one big file but, as you may
> know, shapefiles only grow up to 2 GB in size. So, 8 files. Differences in
> fields due to the year a particular sheet was made.
>
>
> So, yeah, this is quite far from optimal performance. I know.
>
>
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