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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On 03/02/2012 03:50 PM, Zohar wrote:
> 1. Why is the Simple_Cartesian better than the Cartesian?
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> I found in the doc of simple_cart:
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> "In contrast to Cartesian, no reference counting is used internally. This
> eases debugging, but may slow down algorithms that copy objects
> intensively."

It's not better or worse, it's different. It depends on the application.

Sebastien.

> 2. That's a good idea to first test the intersection using a predicate, and
> only then find the type of intersection using an exact intersection. I
> didn't realize up until now the difference between predicate and
> construction .
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