[OSM-dev] Re: New renderer... move to Ruby/rmagick?

[Nick Hill]

Nick Whitelegg wrote:

> Ruby vs PHP vs C would seem appropriate. However if the database querying 
> is always going to be the rate-determining step, it might be better to 
> leave it in to evaluate whether it really matters what language the map is 
> rendered in.

It is likely we will end up optimising the database to assemble 25,600 
pieces of data in around 100 milliseconds of CPU and I/O time.

Do we have any ideas of the relative time taken, with the different 
languages, to render a result on a 25,600 element dataset on a 3Ghz CPU?