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Re: IDL 8.2.2 released [message #83168 is a reply to message #83056] Fri, 08 February 2013 09:04 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Fabzi is currently offline  Fabzi
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On 02/08/2013 05:14 PM, Chris Torrence wrote:
> In the meantime, if you are desperate for a speedup,
> you could use just an unstructured
> readu/writeu. It's not as flexible as the save file,
> but it will be as fast (if not faster)
> than the Python.

I could also recommend using NetCDF 4 files, which are quite flexible
and really fast to write/read. I made a small workbench test to write
and read a [500,500,500] array. Funny enough, both file have same size
on disk (477.8 Mb) but the IN/OUT differences are striking:

% Time elapsed IDL save: 8.8444729 seconds.
% Time elapsed NCDF save: 0.57288098 seconds.
% Time elapsed IDL restore: 8.8600481 seconds.
% Time elapsed NCDF restore: 0.63916397 seconds.

Fab
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