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R bindings for H3, a hierarchical hexagonal geospatial indexing system
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Should we use h3-r or h3forr? #18

Closed riazarbi closed 5 years ago

riazarbi commented 5 years ago

Hello,

We're using h3forr in several projects. It's working really well, but for some of our faster code the library is a bit of a speed bottleneck. No complaints, it's working great otherwise.

It occurs to me that this library might perform significantly faster than h3forr. Would this be the case? Our most used functions are k-ring, polyfill and parent-child operations.

Are there any other reasons to adopt one over the other? Which do you see as being better supported going forward?

crazycapivara commented 5 years ago

Hi,

h3forr has some overhead due to the V8 engine. while h3-r uses the H3 C bindings directly. Therefore, regarding performance you should use h3-r.

At the moment I also put more support in h3-r.

But I am not sure if it will work on windows in the future #3. That might be a reason to use h3forr!?

riazarbi commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the feedback; I'll move over to h3-r