[Foam-extend-developers] Disabling the ASCII writeFormat

[Martin B. <bea...@gm...>]

Hello,

I am seriously considering disabling the ASCII writeFormat when meshes are
larger than a predefined cells number.

The idea is to still offer the ASCII writeFormat for small cases (which is
useful for testing or training), but to mark it as unavailable when running
simulations with serious size meshes, let's say larger than 10k cells.

For larger meshes, the user would be forced to use the binary writeFormat.

The specific mesh size would be defined at compile time, so site admins
would be able to adjust this number if need be, but this number would not
be overridable at runtime by users.

The amount of storage space wasted on Foam/OpenFOAM meshes and solutions
ASCII files is just too important.

Thank you for your comments on this "radical" idea.

Martin