Pretty busy right now so I just scanned this.
First, use "data file filename" format (not "data follows") so you
can push all the data over into one or more external files. Keeps the
.dx file nice, compact, and readable. Then you could have either
binary or text data files, as you prefer. Since you're probably
working with large data, this should be a big win.
Second, I'd be more prone to using constantarray components to hold
what you have put in attributes, since it's easy then to Mark that
component and do compute things with it. Somewhat more hassle to get
the attribute and operate with it. Constantarrays don't take up any
more space than attributes.
Definitely, though native format is the only way to go! Glad to see
you are over the hump.
Chris Pelkie
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Conceptual Reality Presentations, Inc.
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