2010/7/9 Felix Schlesinger <schle...@cshl.edu>

> Francesc Alted <faltet <at> pytables.org> writes:
> >  If EArray appends are much faster then VLArray appends
> > I might go with that. More benchmarking needed as always.
> > Yes.  Some benchmarks would be nice to have.
>
> In my specific case (Atom=('i4',2), a few million entries, Intel
> 64bit CPU, ...) appending to the EArray is about 10 times
> faster then appending the same number of elements to the
> VLArray in rows with an average length of 1 and maximal length
> of 5. Reading is about 2 times faster.
>

Great.  Are you using Blosc?  If not, I'd bet that it will accelerate things
on EArray still more.

-- 
Francesc Alted
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