OSGeo/gdal — pull request #24 by ahuarte47 (2013-10-28 14:54:55+00:00)
Title: Ticket #5272 - Speed improvement for OGR shapefile provider

It is possible improve the shapefile reader avoiding unnecessary memcpy's and calloc's and replacing the CPLAtof by super-fast OGRFastAtof.

OGRFastAtof gets significant improvement at least in OS windows.