Re: [Pytables-users] Optimizing pytables for reading entire columns at a time

[Francesc A. <fa...@gm...>]

On 9/21/12 10:07 PM, Anthony Scopatz wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Luke Lee <dur...@gm... 
> <mailto:dur...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     Hi again,
>
>     I haven't been getting the updates via email so I'm attempting to
>     post again to respond.
>
>     Thanks everyone for the suggestions.  I have a few questions:
>
>     1.  What is the benefit of using the stand-alone carray project
>     (https://github.com/FrancescAlted/carray) vs Pytables.carray?
>
>
> Hello Luke,
>
> carrays are in-memory, not on disk.

Well, that was true until version 0.5 where disk persistency was 
introduced.  Now, carray supports both in-memory and on-disk objects, 
and they work exactly in the same way.

-- 
Francesc Alted