>> it looks like bumping up the output file sizes by 60% would take up an
>> extra 6MB in the examples.  Trivial normally, possibly the last straw
>> for someone on a machine with tiny quotas.
> 
> I have no interest one way or the other, but it's worth pointing out
> that 1 GB costs well under a dime on consumer disks, somewhat more on a
> higher performance file system.  I think the point where 6 MB of disk is
> lost in the noise has past several years ago, and administrators that
> fail to acknowledge this ought to be notified.  Of course output from
> production runs is an entirely different matter, but that's not what the
> present discussion is about.

I was playing devils advocate - when is backwards compatibility important?

I would be just as happy upping the default ascii precision, and putting it
in the MeshOutput<> base class for that matter.

-Ben


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