Let me send you the code. Perhaps you could suggest a more effecient approach. I'm not sure which parts of M are slower than others. It seemed slow to me as I waited 97 seconds for the file to load....
Kevin On 8/21/05, Maury Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sounds extremely slow. I would have guessed about 1/10th that time. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Toppenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 11:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Is $$GTF~%ZISH() binary friendly? > > > > OK. I have written a function $$BIN2GBL() that will load a binary > > stream into a global much like FTG^%ZISH() does. The binary data is > > store in ascii hex characters. > > > > I just timed it, and it took 97 seconds to load 4,629,504 bytes --> > > 47,726 bytes/second --> 381 kb/s (I think that calculation is > > correct). > > > > Is this a reasonable speed, or should I try to optimize the code somehow? > > > > Thanks > > Kevin > > > > > > > > > > On 8/20/05, Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> OK. Thanks > >> > >> I think I will write a function that loads a binary stream, encodes it > >> as text (probably ascii chars representing hex numbers... "A3","F1" > >> etc.) > >> This will only be 50% effecient (2 characters to represent 0-255). > >> But the advantage is that I can store it in a WP field. > >> > >> And the RPCBroker has a mode to transfer WP fields. > >> > >> Kevin > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On 8/20/05, Jim Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Kevin, > >> > I am pretty certain that the answer is no, it's not binary friendly. I > >> > took a brief look > >> > at the routine at http://vista.vmth.ucdavis.edu/rtn/_ZISH#GTF and at > >> > MGTF+11 you can see > >> > that it adds CRLF (!) at the end of each data node. Also, although most > >> > MUMPS > >> > implementations can handle binary data just fine, many of the utilities > >> > cannot. Also, I > >> > seem to recall (It's been a long time since I looked at it) that the > >> > protocol of the > >> > vanilla RPCBroker might choke on binary data as well. Someone else here > >> > should be able to > >> > answer definitively. The XML coding of Medsphere's CPRS variant might do > >> > fine with it and > >> > M2Web can work with binary data also. > >> > > >> > Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > >> > >I have a question about $$GTF^%ZISH(): Copy Global to Host File. > >> > > > >> > >Will it load binary files? Are there size limits? Does this depend > >> > >on the limit of the underlying strings used to store the data? I > >> > >think that GTM 5 up'd its string length? > >> > > > >> > >I would like to be able to be able to load a .jpg file into a global, > >> > >then send it out via RPCBroker. > >> > > > >> > >Kevin > >> > > >> > --------------------------------------- > >> > Jim Self > >> > Systems Architect, Lead Developer > >> > VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis > >> > (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) > >> > > >> > > >> > ------------------------------------------------------- > >> > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > >> > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle > >> > Practices > >> > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & > >> > QA > >> > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Hardhats-members mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > >> > > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Hardhats-members mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
