[mkgmap-dev] patch to improve style throughput

Wed Apr 25 06:30:05 BST 2018

Hi Steve,

thanks for review, I've added a unit test to show why your version doesn't work.
I see no simple way to improve the index much more. I thought about a different approach:
Instead of doing all the calculations before any rule is really executed we might do this dynamically.
Each rule which changes or adds tags would point to a list of further rules which are to be checked. Only when such
a change really happens the additional rules are checked.
No idea if this can be implemented more efficiently than the current static index.

Gerd

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Von: mkgmap-dev <mkgmap-dev-bounces at lists.mkgmap.org.uk> im Auftrag von Steve Ratcliffe <steve at parabola.me.uk>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. April 2018 23:06:11
An: mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] patch to improve style throughput

Hi Gerd

I don't think I understand any of this any more :(

It didn't seem right to extract the key from the keystring
so I tried without and the attached patch also passes all
the tests - I make no other claim!

Steve

> Hi Steve,
>
> I think I found a simple patch to improve the rule index. I've noticed that the unpatched version often returns far more rules to check than expected.
> e.g. if an element has the tag a=3 and we have these 3 rules
> a=1 {...}
> a=2 & b=1 {...}
> a=3 & c=1 {...}
>
> all three are evaluated, in fact all rules which have a keystring beginning with a= are returned by the index. The patch changes this so that rules which cannot match are not
> returned. This makes style evaluation a bit faster.  I've tried it with a few styles and some input files and found no changes in the output, also all unit tests pass, so I hope I did not miss something.  What do you think?
>
> Gerd
>
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