[OSM-dev] Slow Osmosis

[Stefan de Konink]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> The Java implementations of gzip/bzip are notoriuosly slow. If you are 
> working with compressed data, you might see an improvement if you first 
> uncompress the file and then use osmosis to process it in raw form; 
> later use an external utility to compress the output if applicable.

But if he first uncompresses the data basically osmosis looses its main 
argument to be superior to any other approach.

(Yes I think this point should be made)


Stefan