[Qgis-developer] Benchmarking QgsExpression against V8

[Paolo Cavallini]

>> -------- Messaggio originale --------
>> Oggetto: [Qgis-developer] Benchmarking QgsExpression against V8
>> Data: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:00:11 +0100
>> Mittente: Pirmin Kalberer<pi_ml at sourcepole.com>
>> A: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Following the recent enhancements of QGsExpression, I was wondering
>> whether it
>> wouldn't make sense to integrate a language intepreter instead of
>> creating
>> another language.
>> One candidate would be Google's V8 JavaScript engine
>> (http://code.google.com/p/v8/). Since embedding this C++ library is
>> easy, I've
>> conducted a few quick benchmarks against QgsExpression. Code is
>> attached.

>> Any other points?

Going back to this, to me it generally makes sense to use external, powerful, well 
maintained libraries, instead of rewriting on our own.
All the best.
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Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
www.faunalia.eu
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