Re: [Psidev-ms-dev] mzML 0.99 remarks

[Mike C. <tu...@gm...>]

I can see why having a 'count' might make it easier for novice
programmers to *write* a processing program, but I cannot see why
having a 'count' would make more than a negligible difference in
performance, if even that.  As a worst case, one could read the mzML
file into memory, scan it once to calculate the count, and then
proceed as before.  The additional time required to do a sweep through
RAM would be trivial.

Mike




On 10/9/07, Marc Sturm <st...@in...> wrote:
> I would like the count attributes to stay, at least for the spectrum
> list and peak list.
> Knowing the number of elements can make a huge performance difference in
> some languages e.g. C++.