I see. If it has C api interface, one can write cover verbs for commonly used functions and should work as easy as python (albeit I know almost nothing about python).
Сбт, 14 Июл 2012, Konrad Hinsen писал(а): > bill lam writes: > > > On a cursory browse on that website, it seems that HDF5 is > > implemented using java, is it true? Who will start java vm? by the > > c wrapper or tarded by another process? > > HDF5 is written in C. There's a Java wrapper (using JNI) and based on > that wrapper the HDF Group has written a generic viewer for HDF5 files > in Java, which is probably what you saw. > > Using HDF5 from C or Fortran is a bit cumbersome, but it's a > straightforward C API, just very big. When possible I prefer to use > Python for working with HDF5 files, which is very easy. > > > BTW I think you cannot process a 60GB file using Jmf unless you also got > > at least 60GB RAM available. > > Right, and that's why memory-mapping is not a universal solution for > me. I never read my HDF5 files entirely in memory either. HDF5 lets > me read arbitrary subarrays, with roughly the same functionality as > J's "from". > > Konrad. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
