That sounds extremely slow. I would have guessed about 1/10th that time.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Toppenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Is $$GTF~%ZISH() binary friendly? > OK. I have written a function $$BIN2GBL() that will load a binary > stream into a global much like FTG^%ZISH() does. The binary data is > store in ascii hex characters. > > I just timed it, and it took 97 seconds to load 4,629,504 bytes --> > 47,726 bytes/second --> 381 kb/s (I think that calculation is > correct). > > Is this a reasonable speed, or should I try to optimize the code somehow? > > Thanks > Kevin > > > > > On 8/20/05, Kevin Toppenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK. Thanks >> >> I think I will write a function that loads a binary stream, encodes it >> as text (probably ascii chars representing hex numbers... "A3","F1" >> etc.) >> This will only be 50% effecient (2 characters to represent 0-255). >> But the advantage is that I can store it in a WP field. >> >> And the RPCBroker has a mode to transfer WP fields. >> >> Kevin >> >> >> >> >> On 8/20/05, Jim Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Kevin, >> > I am pretty certain that the answer is no, it's not binary friendly. I >> > took a brief look >> > at the routine at http://vista.vmth.ucdavis.edu/rtn/_ZISH#GTF and at >> > MGTF+11 you can see >> > that it adds CRLF (!) at the end of each data node. Also, although most >> > MUMPS >> > implementations can handle binary data just fine, many of the utilities >> > cannot. Also, I >> > seem to recall (It's been a long time since I looked at it) that the >> > protocol of the >> > vanilla RPCBroker might choke on binary data as well. Someone else here >> > should be able to >> > answer definitively. The XML coding of Medsphere's CPRS variant might do >> > fine with it and >> > M2Web can work with binary data also. >> > >> > Kevin Toppenberg wrote: >> > >I have a question about $$GTF^%ZISH(): Copy Global to Host File. >> > > >> > >Will it load binary files? Are there size limits? Does this depend >> > >on the limit of the underlying strings used to store the data? I >> > >think that GTM 5 up'd its string length? >> > > >> > >I would like to be able to be able to load a .jpg file into a global, >> > >then send it out via RPCBroker. >> > > >> > >Kevin >> > >> > --------------------------------------- >> > Jim Self >> > Systems Architect, Lead Developer >> > VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis >> > (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------- >> > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO >> > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices >> > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA >> > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Hardhats-members mailing list >> > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members >> > >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
