[Xastir-Dev] some ideas for map speedups

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Alan Crosswell wrote:

> - Insinuate an intermediate vector data structure layer between the map-specific
> file reading functions and the map display functions (instead of directly
> invoking X drawing functions).  This then canonicalizes all vector maps to a
> single Xastir internal data structure which captures the attributes we care about.

Perhaps I am unusual, but I find that resampling and drawing rasters
dominates the time for panning a map. Are you not using rasters, or am I
losing for some reason?