[Radiance-dev] Re: setting buffer size on octree reads (setvbuf)

[R Fritz]

[Reappearing from under a tub]

> Since readoct has to unpack the data and allocate octree nodes and
> leaves and so on, I'm not sure how best to speed up the process.


Perhaps the data doesn't need to be packed any more? There's hugely  
more memory available in modern systems than the ones you worked with  
when you developed that file format. Though I suppose the best thing  
to do is the by-the-book "instrument, then code" approach.

Randolph Fritz
   design machine group
   architecture department
   university of washington
rfritz at u.washington.edu