[yt-dev] When can we turn off serialization by default?

[david collins]

I use serialized projections quite frequently.  As long as the current
behavior, or some reasonable facsimile, is still available I'm for doing it
now.


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Stephen Skory <s at skory.us> wrote:
> > Just to play devil's advocate here, what would it take to "fix"
> > serialization? Adding a checksum so that data changes can be detected?
> > More than that?
>
> That would partly fix the issue of fields/hierarchy changes not being
> detected (unless you manually mess with the data).  But it wouldn't
> fix the deeper problem, which is that a) we scatter files willy nilly
> about the directory, which I am coming to feel is a really gross
> violation of expectations, and b) the process of auto-serialization
> doesn't save a huge amount of time in most cases.  JohnW and I
> spitballed last fall about some of the biggest hierarchies he's dealt
> with in Enzo and I promised to write a Cython parser, which I never
> succeeded at.
>
> -Matt
>
> >
> >
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