[Mapserver-dev] Point Symbols

[Steve Lime]

Hey Shane: You're alive, that's good!

Anyway, the speed difference is neglible. In both cases an image is
cached so even for the circle symbol it is only rendered into a bitmap
once. There are more effective ways (indexing, data preprocessing) to
boost performance.

Steve

>>> "Shane Pittman" <pacovilla22 at HOTMAIL.COM> 02/18/04 7:21 PM >>>
Hi,

I have a question about point symbols in Mapserver.  What draws faster: 
a 
point represented by a Mapserver drawn symbol, or a point represented by
a 
png of that same symbol?

Another way to ask that question is, what draws faster:  100 towns each 
represented by a SIZE 5 black circle (with SYMBOL "circle"), or 100
towns 
represented by png's of a SIZE 5 black circle?

Thanks in advance,
Shane Pittman

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