Re: [Libmesh-devel] [Libmesh-users] System::read_serialized_data performance

[David K. <dkn...@se...>]

On 10/06/2012 09:59 PM, Roy Stogner wrote:
>
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2012, David Knezevic wrote:
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>> I agree, I think we do need a specialized I/O implementation that
>> concatenates vectors. The key parts of the RB code related to this are
>> at line 873 and 940 of rb_evaluation.C. We currently write (or read) a
>> bunch of vectors one after the other, but it'd obviously be much better
>> to string these all together into one big file.
>>
>> Any thoughts on an API?
>
> If we're doing Yet Another File Format, let's see if we can make it
> more easily extensible this time?  Maybe something on top of HDF5, if
> the reduced_basis users wouldn't mind have to --enable another
> dependency?

Sure, HDF5 would be fine.