Re: data access

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> I think that part of the problem is that the casefiles are designed to
> be a) Fast; and b) Potentially very large.  One of the costs of these
> design criteria is that they're not quite so flexible.
>
> As Ben has explained to me before, accessing  a casefile in random
> order is much less effecient than doing so in sequential order.  I'm
> not sure that a 10^8 x 300 gsl-matrix would be very efficient.

What John said here is roughly my own thoughts, too.
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