Re: [Pytables-users] Ticket #111. chunkshape: mo re documentation and hand-holding in a PerformanceWarn ing

2007-11-23 Thread Francesc Altet
A Friday 23 November 2007, Pauli Virtanen escrigué: > > This would have had the side-effect of placing the largest > > dimensions first and using a C order. It would be a pity, since > > the disussion may not have been spurred! ;) > > I think we would have had a different discussion ;) > > >>> imp

Re: [Pytables-users] Ticket #111. chunkshape: more documentation and hand-holding in a PerformanceWarning

2007-11-23 Thread Francesc Altet
Hi Pauli, A Friday 23 November 2007, Pauli Virtanen escrigué: [...] > The order of the dimensions of the array here came partly from > wanting to keep the data logically in Fortran-order: the logically > fastest-varying (most local) indices are first, the slowest-varying > indices (least local) la

Re: [Pytables-users] Ticket #111. chunkshape: more documentation and hand-holding in a PerformanceWarning

2007-11-23 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:56:59 +0100, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer wrote: [clip] > Dropping by the very interesting discussion, if 2x2 tensors is the basic > element you want to store (varying with a series of paramenters), and > since it doesn't make much sense for the chunkshape to split a tensor in > the m

Re: [Pytables-users] Ticket #111. chunkshape: more documentation and hand-holding in a PerformanceWarning

2007-11-23 Thread Ivan Vilata i Balaguer
Pauli Virtanen (el 2007-11-23 a les 01:18:18 +) va dir:: >[...] > Let me first clarify the reasons why I chose to describe the data as an > array of dimensions > > (2, 2, N, N, P, Q) > > In the problem I solved, the quantity of interest is a 2 x 2 tensor which > is a function defined