[QGIS-Developer] Heads up on GEOS Overlay New Generation

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:31:36AM +0200, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi Régis,
> 
> Indeed interesting.
> 
> Is there evidence that it will also be faster than previous versions? If
> yes - for certain operations or generally faster?

When the slow operation is due to multiple heuristics kicking in
(implemented in GEOS when getting a TopologyException, before
giving up) then YES, OverlayNG will be faster as it would reach
the goal earlier. On-par speed comparison has not been performed yet.

--strk;