Excerpts from Erin Sheldon's message of Sun Feb 26 17:35:00 -0500 2012: > Excerpts from Warren Weckesser's message of Sun Feb 26 16:22:35 -0500 2012: > > Yes, thanks! I'm working on a mmap version now. I'm very curious to see > > just how much of an improvement it can give. > > FYI, memmap is generally an incomplete solution for numpy arrays; it > only understands rows, not columns and rows. If you memmap a rec array > on disk and try to load one full column, it still loads the whole file > beforehand.
I read your message out of context. I was referring to interfaces to binary files, but I forgot your only working on the text interface. Sorry for the noise, -e -- Erin Scott Sheldon Brookhaven National Laboratory _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
