Hi, It's expected to take a somewhat arbitrary time. It reads ASCII.
The start-up time is going to be large because of having to find the first frequency, which means you have to parse the text nonetheless. //Richard On Sun, Sep 19, 2021, 20:19 Patrick Eriksson <patrick.eriks...@chalmers.se> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have noticed that the time used by ReadHITRAN is not linear with the > width of the frequency range. For example, to read all lines (of five > main species) between 800 and 840 cm-1 used 90 s, while reading 800-820 > and 820-840 cm-1) together used 57 s. > > Is this expected? > > (The above uses 1-2% of my RAM). > > Bye, > > Patrick >
