[geos-devel] code for ST_ClosestPoint

[Paul Ramsey]

It's a schmozzle, what can I say. All the distance functions and easy
measurements (area, perimeter) pre-dated GEOS, and were left in place
when GEOS arrived. And native functions were found to be unambiguously
faster than calling into GEOS (no real surprise) so much additional
functionality (particularly for linear things, like LRS) and
enhancements to old functionality (like distance on curves) has been
added to the native code base.

P.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 08:59:16AM +0100, Rémi Cura wrote:
>> Thanks,
>> I tried the "rgrep" thing in geos folder, I had no idea some of PostGis C
>> functions were not in GEOS.
>
> Many are. The "fast ones" you can usually tell are done in C >:)
>
> --strk;
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