[Xastir-dev] Observations

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 07:48:30PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jerryc at netlab.org> flavor, containing:
> > 
> > > > > Weather objects are back to being a cause for a pause after maps
> > > > > are loaded nad before htey are displayed.
> > > >
> > > > Do you mean the lit-up counties?  There are more of them on the map
> > > > right now.
> > > Weather Alerts, I meant..........
> > > DUH! was still thinking object from above.
> > 
> > Some other things could affect this, like rtree and dbfawk perhaps.
> > Have you changed anything with respect to those two options lately?
> > 
> I installed rtree a month or so ago and it really sped it up. But somehow it is
> back to slow again and stalling map draw with weather alerts message on bottom
> left.
> How do I know Rtree is working ?

There are no really simple ways of checking --- when I did the coding I didn't
put in a lot of debug_level-controlled fprintfs.  If you are really curious
whether it's being used, you'd need to uncomment the fprintfs I left in there.
Look in map_shp.c inside of some of the #ifdef USE_RTREE blocks.

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