[OSM-talk] TIGER/Line - no polygons ???

[Dave Hansen]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 17:40 +0100, Artem Pavlenko wrote:
> 
> On 04/09/07, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 17:24 +0100, Artem Pavlenko wrote:
> > > I'm happy to help if I can. I've written TIGER dataset plug-in for
> > > Cadcorp but it was long time ago. I'm hoping to get some free time
> > > before foss4g .. Where can I have a look at your tools?
> >
> > The tarballs in here:
> >
> > http://www.sr71.net/~dave/osm/tiger/
> 
> Great. Looks like I'll have to learn Ruby :D. 

It's a pretty horrid little language.  Somehow, its garbage collector
manages to touch all of memory constantly, even if it isn't in use.
That keeps the OS from being able to swap out all of the unused memory
that ruby garbage collector missed.  It's also slow as all hell to do
really rare things like function calls.  

I really started to rewrite the whole thing in C++, but gave up because
it isn't quite worth it.

I hate perl, too.  But, the difference there is I hate it and still
voluntarily use it all the time! :)

-- Dave