Re: Save produces large files

[David Bateman]

Frank Palazzolo a écrit :

> The funny thing is, if you save a=NaN (as a scalar), it doesn't give you the
> warning.
>
> Are scalars different than matrices to -float-binary?
>  
Yes, consider the code that does the saving

bool
octave_scalar::save_binary (std::ostream& os, bool& /* save_as_floats */)
{
 char tmp = (char) LS_DOUBLE;
 os.write (X_CAST (char *, &tmp), 1);
 double dtmp = double_value ();
 os.write (X_CAST (char *, &dtmp), 8);

 return true;
}

It ignores the save_as_float argument and always saves as a double, as 
the cost saving is negligible....

D.



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