[GRASS-user] The upper limit for displaying large vector layers

[Moritz Lennert]

On 16/12/08 16:56, Glynn Clements wrote:
> If built with --with-cairo, the default display driver is cairo. You
> can force the use of the PNG driver (while it still exists) with
> GRASS_RENDER_IMMEDIATE=PNG.

I don't see any significant differences between the two...

> Ultimately, I don't want to waste time optimising code which could
> change substantially (also, I don't want to have to modify code which
> has been complicated by optimisation).

I understand that. I do think, however, that there is a problem with 
very long display times for large vector maps and that if we could find 
a solution this would be very welcome.

Moritz