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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 10:41:57PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> Any objections to slowly removing the binary file output format in
> favour of HDF5? An object can be sent into and be retrieved from a
> HDF5 file by a string. For large vectors (>10^6), the HDF5 output is
> almost 3 times faster than the binary output, it works in parallel,
> file data can be viewed using the HDF5 viewer and the output files are
> platform-independent.

Not as long as we can remove it without breaking the TimeSeries class.
I don't think the binary file format is important in itself but the
TimeSeries class is used in a few places.

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Anders