[Tilesathome] Proposal: Keeping tileset as one file

[Florian Lohoff]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 06:45:16PM +0200, Jiri Klement wrote:
> >  * Will tile download be done with PHP (has this been covered in
> >   the benchmarks - compare executing PHP code to extract data from
> >   a large tile with having Apache load the tile directly), or
> >   will we have an Apache module for that?
> 
> What about CGI script? It should be much simpler than apache module
> and it will have access to sendfile() (zero copy), so it should be
> almost as fast as loading files directly by Apache.

Zero copy will gain you nothing. The server does not starve the CPU but
the disk i/o - so copying around the data comes for free.

lo
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