[Openstreetmap] qgis isn't so memory hungry

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Lars Luthman]
> I don't know if any of you still care about this, but this has been
> fixed today in the CVS version of QGIS ( http://sf.net/projects/qgis ).

Great!  Yes, I do still care. :)

I'll test it when the fix make it into Debian. :)

> The problem was that we were using Qt's XML parser to parse the GPX
> files, and it is appearently crap for parsing large files. The new
> code uses expat instead, and I managed to load a 70 MB GPX file in
> 13 seconds, using at most 50 MB of memory.

Sounds very good. :)