[geos-devel] Second beta for ffi-geos extension now available

[Daniel Azuma]

Just a little opinion on this, as I'm actually starting to use ffi-geos. If it is to be the de facto ruby binding for GEOS, it should expose the same flexibility that GEOS provides, including control over when and whether to produce a prepared geometry, so that clients that need that level of control can have it. A transparent implementation is very useful and could also be done, but it should be an optional API that can be turned on or off.

Daniel


On 12 May, 2011, at 08:57, J Smith wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
>> 
>> So both Python and Ruby made the "PreparedGeometry" type explicit.
>> 
>> I was thinking more of a .prep() function returning void and internally
>> holding a prepared version to transparently use in all prepared-aware
>> methods. This would kind of follow PostGIS use, where you actually don't
>> even explicitly call the "prepare" which happens based on an heuristic
>> (the second time you run a predicate on a geometry that geometry gets
>> prepared). The advantage of transparency would be there's no API change
>> but automatic performance improvement.
>> 
> 
> I'd be open to that sort of thing. I'm still in beta after all.