Thanks for the explanation! I was already playing with the compression.
Best,
F.
On 8 Jul 2014 15:23, "Tiago de Paula Peixoto" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/08/2014 04:48 AM, Flavien Lambert wrote:
> > Hi guys, when saving a graph with .save(), I understood that float are
> > represented in hexadecimal exponentiation format. I was wondering the
> > reason for that.
>
> The hexadecimal format is to guarantee exact representation, so that you
> load exactly the same number you saved, without any loss. This is not
> possible with a decimal format.
>
> > The thing behind my question is that I built a graph with 5M vertices
> > and 50M edges so storing it as an XML file leads to a 5GB one. So, if
> > I can find a way to reduce the size, I will be very happy.
>
> Just use gzip or bzip2.
>
> Note that in graph-tool you can save directly in a compressed format by
> doing:
>
> g.save("graph.xml.gz") # for gzip
>
> or
>
> g.save("graph.xml.bz2") # for bzip2
>
> The same thing works for load.
>
> This should lead to a strong reduction of your file size.
>
> Best,
> Tiago
>
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