FW: [geos-devel] JTS/GEOS performance - smart-ptr vs ref counting

[Martin Davis]

> It might be worth looking into special memory managers but AFAICT
> most of the 'coordinates' are actually stored in STL vectors 
> and these 
> are generally about as efficient as you can get at minimizing 
> allocation costs.

That's good to hear. 

How would you interpret the significance of strks allocation counts he
posted earlier in this thread?  There's a lot of objects being allocated
there.  Might that not imply that memory allocation is a hotspot?

And there is still the undeniable fact that JTS is faster than GEOS - in
spite of it having to rely on the hopelessly inefficient garbage
collection strategy of that environment.  8^)

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