[GRASS-dev] Re: need a truly quiet quiet

[Michael Barton]

On Nov 1, 2007, at 5:49 PM, grass-dev-request at grass.itc.it wrote:

> Initial Comment:
> Hi,
>
> I have just experienced, how expensive it can be, to write a  
> WARNING out for every point, when buffering. I try to build simple  
> buffers (only 8 points needed) around a lot of points - in one case  
> 370.000 - and for the reason I choose a high tolerance value (to be  
> sure, it will be reset to the max allowed one). THis works, but  
> takes unbelievably long with all the warnings:
> "WARNING: The tolerance was reset to ..."
>
> Now I have commented out the warning in main.c of v.buffer, and  
> suddenly it is running like mad (30 seconds instead of over 10  
> minutes). So maybe it would be nice to :
> - either add another switch to turn off this warning
> - or include it under the "--quiet" option (NO warning if "--quiet"  
> set).
>
> Andras Fabian
>
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Andras,

I really really agree with you. This has been an endless source of  
problems for me trying to script a GUI around modules that will not  
be quiet.

Michael
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