Re: [geos-devel] Benchmark between various geometry libraries

2009-11-19 Thread Maxime van Noppen
Hartmut Kaiser wrote: Well, as both allocators the one in JVM and the one used by the C++ compiler is probably written in C or C++ I don't see why Java should be soo much faster when it comes to allocating objects :-P It's not that the allocator is faster but that the JVM has a pool of

Re: [geos-devel] Benchmark between various geometry libraries

2009-11-19 Thread strk
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:02:13AM -0800, Martin Davis wrote: Thanks for clarifying this, Hartmut. This makes good sense to me. In my (admittedly limited and dated) experience, the C/C++ heap allocator (good ol' malloc still, right?) is pretty slow. From what you're saying stack

FW: [geos-devel] Benchmark between various geometry libraries

2009-11-19 Thread Martin Chapman
One typo on last email: COOORD** coords = new*[numCoordinates]; Should have been: COOORD** coords = new COOORD*[numCoordinates]; Martin -Original Message- From: Martin Chapman [mailto:chapm...@pixia.com] Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:14 AM To: 'GEOS Development List' Subject:

[geos-devel] RE: {SPAM: 40} :Re: autogen.bat

2009-11-19 Thread Obe, Regina
Those only work for Linux boxes I think. So I had to download the autoexec.bat and run that against my tar download to get it to compile under VS 2008 C++ Express. I'll have to try with the solution files on my other box as I don't recall ever having to do this before. Then again in prior