[Paraview] reducing load time?

[John Doe]

Hello,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I assume that for double precision I am
doing a base64 encoding for every number in the list?  Is compression
worthwhile for floating point data?  Are there free compression
libraries out there?

Juan

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> ASCII XML is very slow to load because it uses the XML parser. For
> large data, you should switch to a binary format.
>
> XML binary
> legacy VTK
> Exodus
> Xdmf
>
> are a few choices.
>
> To see the difference in load time, save the data out as a binary vtu
> or vtk file and load it back in.
>
> -berk
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:25 PM, John Doe <ufnoise at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a 220 MB vtu file that is being loaded and it is taking at
>> least 15 min to load the data.  Is there any option to reduce the
>> amount of time paraview would take to load the data.  Or is there some
>> way I should be formatting my data.  The vtu file is in the ASCII XML
>> VTK format.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Juan
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