mapbox/tilelive-mapnik — Issue #25: discard in memory map string after loading?
Author: springmeyer
Created: 2012-03-03 17:06:58+00:00
State: open

The tilelive map object carries the entire XML string in memory to then pass to mapnik via node-mapnik's `fromString`.

With large maps they can end up taking many MB of memory when loaded by mapnik so perhaps we could save a bit on memory by then discarding the XML string.