[geos-devel] Coordinate & Coordinate list

[David Blasby]

Martin Davis wrote:

> Not sure about the reason for the large number of Coordinate allocations.  I think we should make the obvious changes to the CoordinateList interface and then rerun the metrics, since things may change quite a bit.

I thought it was actually calling the "new Coordinate(...)" constructor.  Now I'm thinking its actually calling a auto-generated "copy" constructor.

If you look at the CoordinateList class, the

get(int) method calls the get() method.  The get() method copy-creates a Coordinate, which might be  copy-created (again) in the get(int) method, and again copy-created in the caller's "=" assignment.

Norman, how (exactly) did you get gprof to profile the library calls to get your profile results.

dave