<div dir="ltr">I just did a test. 512^3 with 4 levels everywhere. On my desktop, it took 78 seconds. On Kraken it took 19 minutes. Unsurprisingly, Kraken's disk is not that fast today. This is, of course, and extreme example, but it isn't by any means rare for that system. 78 seconds isn't too bad, but today I'll be looking at >20 datasets, so it adds up.<div>
<br></div><div><div><div><div style>I definitely am in favor of an opt-in system, though, as many applications won't be this shape or on this disk. Or even an explicit call, such as ProjectinPlot.serialize()</div><div style>
<br></div><div style><br></div><div><div>pf = load(fname)</div><div>t0=time.time()</div><div>proj=ProjectionPlot(pf,2,'Density')</div><div>t1=time.time()</div><div>print t1-t0</div></div><div><div>Parsing Hierarchy100% |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Time: 00:00:00</div>
<div>Initializing tree 0 / 4100% |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Time: 00:00:00</div><div>Projecting level 0 / 4 100% ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Time: 00:03:39</div>
<div>Initializing tree 1 / 4100% |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Time: 00:00:00</div><div>Projecting level 1 / 4 100% ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Time: 00:04:12</div>
<div>Initializing tree 2 / 4100% |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Time: 00:00:00</div><div>Projecting level 2 / 4 80% ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| | ETA: 00:00:52</div>
<div>Projecting level 2 / 4 100% ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Time: 00:04:17</div><div>Initializing tree 3 / 4100% |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Time: 00:00:00</div>
<div>Projecting level 3 / 4 100% ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Time: 00:02:58</div><div>Initializing tree 4 / 4100% |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Time: 00:00:00</div>
<div>Projecting level 4 / 4 100% ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Time: 00:04:06</div><div>1167.0001719</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Matthew Turk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthewturk@gmail.com" target="_blank">matthewturk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dave, out of curiosity, how long does a projection of one of your datasets take?<br>
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:17 AM, david collins <<a href="mailto:antpuncher@gmail.com">antpuncher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> I use serialized projections quite frequently. As long as the current<br>
> behavior, or some reasonable facsimile, is still available I'm for doing it<br>
> now.<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Matthew Turk <<a href="mailto:matthewturk@gmail.com">matthewturk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Stephen Skory <<a href="mailto:s@skory.us">s@skory.us</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Just to play devil's advocate here, what would it take to "fix"<br>
>> > serialization? Adding a checksum so that data changes can be detected?<br>
>> > More than that?<br>
>><br>
>> That would partly fix the issue of fields/hierarchy changes not being<br>
>> detected (unless you manually mess with the data). But it wouldn't<br>
>> fix the deeper problem, which is that a) we scatter files willy nilly<br>
>> about the directory, which I am coming to feel is a really gross<br>
>> violation of expectations, and b) the process of auto-serialization<br>
>> doesn't save a huge amount of time in most cases. JohnW and I<br>
>> spitballed last fall about some of the biggest hierarchies he's dealt<br>
>> with in Enzo and I promised to write a Cython parser, which I never<br>
>> succeeded at.<br>
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