[Liblas-devel] Point implementation proposal

[Mike Grant]

On 30/06/10 22:04, Howard Butler wrote:
> * interpret its raw data *on-the-fly* for each fixed attribute call (GetIntensity, GetX, GetClassification, etc) we currently support.

The only thing that slightly scares me is that doing everything on the
fly might be a lot slower for (probably) the most common use case of
trawling through every point in a file.  Any idea how much slower it'll be?

If it is slow, it might make sense to provide a bulk interpretation
method of some kind.  Obviously one could take the raw array and
interpret it oneself, but that's the point of using a library.

Cheers,

Mike.

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