[geos-devel] QD (Quad-Double) Approach to Robustness

Wed Jun 14 14:59:36 EDT 2006

> But Dear Friends, it would be humorous if GEOS should use real GC :-)
> Then GEOS existence has completely no reason, because JTS is there.

Not at all. A system like PostGIS does not want to incorporate a JVM.
Also, calling Java code from C/C++ is painful, to say the least.

Now what you could say is "Why not just use GCJ?".  Apart from the
limited platform support, this seems like the best way to go to me. 

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