[yt-dev] Forthon issues

Casey W. Stark caseywstark at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 16:25:26 PDT 2012


Hey Stephen and Matt.

Thanks for letting me know. Yeah, too bad the scipy version isn't up to the
performance we need.

- Casey


On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Stephen Skory <s at skory.us> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> > Casey was asking about which components use Forthon.  My understanding
> > is that it's only an indirect hard requirement, and that the things
> > that use it are the merger tree you wrote (not the one that works on
> > Enzo-FOF output), the two point functions, and the pHOP halo finder.
> > Is that right?
>
> Ah, yes, I forgot to answer that. You're correct, Matt, those are the
> places that the Fortran tree is used. In all honesty, the
> scipy.spatial kDTree is good enough (in terms of speed) for all but
> the halo finding, so that can someday be swapped out for the Fortran
> one. Maybe I'll issue myself a ticket...
>
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