Re: [Lib2geom-devel] C++11 initial performance test

[Krzysztof K. <twe...@gm...>]

2013/11/8 Josh Andler <sc...@gm...>:
> On Nov 8, 2013 12:05 AM, "Jasper van de Gronde" <th....@hc...>
> wrote:
>> SVG d string writing and reading is indeed relatively slow, and frankly
>> we shouldn't be doing it all the time (also leads to precision issues).
>> But good work getting some testing done and spending time on making
>> lib2geom maintainable!
>
> Writing helps with emergency saves though, right? Maybe reading it is more
> problematic? Shouldn't we write and not bother rereading unless necessary?

This will be problematic, because writing the path string causes
quantization of the coordinates related to the numeric precision. It's
true though that we should only write the path string once, when the
user releases the mouse.

Regards, Krzysztof