Developers Corner: Improvements to the rendering engine on upcoming GeoServer 2.1/GeoTools 2.7
In this installment we are going to look into the rendering speed improvements featured in the the upcoming GeoServer 2.1/GeoTools 2.7.0 release.We recently talked about a very significant one already: raster reprojection performance has skyrocketed, providing an overall speedup factor of four to six on the overall reprojected WMS request chain (if you want to know about the pure GeoTools reprojection operation speedup, it's more alike a hundred times faster).What you might not know is that the above is coupled by another speedup that we made for the WMS shootout 2010: the "direct rendering path", which makes GeoServer into a...
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