[OSM-dev] Osmosis enableDateParsing

[Jochen Topf]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:29:50PM +1100, Brett Henderson wrote:
> Jochen Topf wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 12:06:59PM +1100, Brett Henderson wrote:
> >   
> >> However it should be very fast now.  I recently implemented a change to 
> >> keep the date as a string internally (I thought I sent you an email 
> >> about this, could be wrong).  If it is written to xml again the previous 
> >> date string is used unchanged.  If it is written to something like a 
> >> database then the string will be parsed when it is required.  Even if 
> >> parsing does occur, the custom code used internally is orders of 
> >> magnitude faster than standard java xml date parsing classes.  It is the 
> >> same code I submitted for JOSM though so has been around for some time now.
> >>     
> >
> > So can we get rid of the option?
> >   
> It is still useful if the input file doesn't include timestamps.  I 
> remember somebody using that recently.  I'll add a comment to the wiki 
> to let people know it isn't useful for speed any more.

Shouldn't Osmosis be able to see by itself that there is no timestamp to
parse in that case?

Jochen
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