[yt-users] Fwd: [Yt-dev] saving derived fields

Andrew Myers atmyers at berkeley.edu
Tue Feb 5 12:53:17 PST 2013


Hi Sam,

Thanks for the info! I'll give it a try and report back if I get something
working.

-Andrew

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Sam Skillman <samskillman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh man, that Sam Skillman from a couple of years ago really dropped the
> ball.  I did not end up giving it a go or report back!
>
> That said, I think Matt's suggestion still holds up.
>
> One other option would be to use (or modify) the write_to_gdf
> functionality, though this would duplicate the data.
>
> So to reuse some bits...
> If you give this a shot and test it, let us know how it goes, and feel
> free to pull request if it works out.
>
> Sam
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Andrew Myers <atmyers at berkeley.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hello YT users,
>>
>> A couple of years ago, Sam Skillman (email chain attached) asked about
>> support for saving derived fields to the disk, so we don't have to
>> re-compute expensive fields over and over again. Did this functionality
>> ever make it into yt? I'm working on something where this would be very
>> useful, so if not I might have a go at implementing myself.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew Myers
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Sam Skillman <samskillman at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:40 AM
>> Subject: [Yt-dev] saving derived fields
>> To: yt-dev at lists.spacepope.org
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've started dealing with a lot of time-consuming derived fields and am
>> wondering if there is already support for writing derived fields back to
>> the raw data files (e.g. .cpu files).  If not, any thoughts on doing so?
>>
>> Sam
>>
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