Also avoid massive long __repr__ strings for complex geometries,
as these can flood the Python console (and first aid plugin),
and aren't useful for debugging anyway.
Refs #14640
All your uses of toUtf8().data() actually just need a const char*
So use constData() that is semantically more correct, and documented
to be faster.
From http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qbytearray.html#data
"For read-only access, constData() is faster because it never
causes a deep copy to occur."
Because:
- Exactly follows curves and doesn't require segmentizing input geometry
- Also interpolates z/m values if they are present in input geometry
- Is faster
Returns a new curve representing a substring of a curve, from
a start distance and end distance.
If z or m values are present, the output z and m will be interpolated using
the existing vertices' z or m values.
Handles curved geometries without loss.
