Re: [Foam-extend-developers] Disabling the ASCII writeFormat

[Hrvoje J. <hrv...@fs...>]

Why don't we force gzip instead - in my experience, this is smaller than binary.

I'd like to hear other opinions, but I am open to any good ideas

HJ

> On 25 Nov 2015, at 03:16, Martin Beaudoin <bea...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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