AIUI it allows you do to tricks with headers, (If-Modified-Since, Expires, etc) in ways that are harder otherwise. It also avoids needing a python interpreter in apache, which saves you quite a bit of memory.
Have a nice day, On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:12 PM, sylvain letuffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> At a recent trade show where OpenStreetMap was showcased, we had >> mod_tile running on a dual core laptop with the UK extract rendering >> the data live. > Whaou ! > So we are not so far from real-time after all, taking my exemple : > if ~0.5s is acceptable for a full screen user view and experience > so in a multi-thread environnent, it means that we "just" need one CPU-core by > tile to render. (well, at list, for one user ;-( ) > But octo-core CPU are on their way... > >> There is already a script in svn for doing tile expiry of the updates >> when using modtile. >> >> http://www.asklater.com/matt/wordpress/?p=80 > Very clever too ! Using the diffs !! > > I just can't understand the advantage into putting code in a apache module, > instead of "just" doing some rewrite to a python/cgi wrapper that would > generate the tiles... > Well, after all, why not, for a few % boost ? > > -- > Sylvain Letuffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > qui suis-je : http://slyserv.dyndns.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
