[mapserver-dev] More Performance

[Paul Ramsey]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us> wrote:
> This sounds like a great opportunity to collaborate. We all want to go fast and each project
> would push the other. Andrea mentioned in Victoria that they would make their test framework
> available but I've never been able to find it on their site. Might Andrea be interested in that?

The framework is a work-in-progress ATM, but yes, it'll be open for us
to use to.

> As for labeling. Does the label cache processing have an impact? Could try BITMAP vs TTF fonts
> and TTF with and without the labelcache.

Moving to bitmap removes the problem, the overhead is definitely in
the font load, not the label cache processing (there is a little
overhead there, but the loading of the font is 3x that).

P.