grass4.0 performance

[Peter Daugherty]

Dear grass community,

	I recently had a discussion with a self-pronounced GIS expert, who
made some quite disparaging remarks in regard to the performance and quality 
of algorithms used in grass.  He views grass as a "toy" gis.  You need not
convince me, as I like the concept and implementation of grass, particularly
the support community of researchers.  However, I would like to be better 
able to evaluate / respond to such criticism.  Are the any benchmark test 
documentation, or like documentation I could read to better understand the 
pros and cons of various systems.  I am currently at UCBerkeley, but will 
soon be at another institution where I will have to justify my preference for
grass.  Thanks in advance.

P. J. Daugherty
Department of Forestry and Resource Management
145 Mulford Hall
University of CA
Berkeley, CA 94720
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pjd@bears.ssl.berkeley.edu