[OSM-talk] advertising, Money: for which purpose and how much?

[Tom Hughes]

In message <D9F09168-B850-4C24-B2A2-B67E1B8188A9 at asklater.com>
          Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:

> On 3 Jul 2007, at 15:25, Tom Hughes wrote:
> 
> > I believe that the web server, and the general horribleness of
> > rails and libxml2 for this particular task, are just as much of
> > a bottleneck here as the database, if not more.
> 
> Why rails and libxml2? libxml - I guess because it's building the dom
> before spitting it out?

Mostly because between them they really, really want to try and hold
everything in memory rather than processing things as a stream.

Tom

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