On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:12:52 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote: > How well to ascii output files scale when you want to write out 30,000 > node voltages and be able to pick out one to plot without it taking a > long time? I don't know the answer, but it seems like a binary format > could have advantages there.
My reference is data from particle physics experiments. These tend to go to extremes in terms of the number of data points. The big detectors easily create 1e6 values per shot at MHz rate. Still, they tend to save their data in ascii format. (e.g. http://lmu.web.psi.ch/facilities/software/general/psi_format.txt) Since generations of particle physics projects have worked with this format, there is a load of utilities and tools. (e.g. http://lmu.web.psi.ch/facilities/software.html) This includes one of the most powerful data analysis libraries available (paw/minuit, which is GPLed) A bridge to this continent of data analysis would provide more scalability than a spice application will ever need. The limitation of the CERN utilities is somewhere in the multi Peta Byte range. ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak http://lilalaser.de/blog _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
