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Re: gEDA-user: Locking/unlocking multiple elements



> And what if I had 1,000 point convex polygon with 2,000 lines inside it's
> bounding box, none of which touched it -- how many comparisons would it
> roughly take?

It would be exactly the same, but it's less common that convex polygons
have as many non-intersecting lines. A simple rectangle is the only case
that's guaranteed to be trivial. But for real-world applications this really
doesn't matter.

h.