Yuyun Yang via petsc-users <petsc-users@mcs.anl.gov> writes: > It's simply for visualization purposes. I wasn't sure if HDF5 would perform > better than binary, and what specific functions are needed to load the PETSc > vectors/matrices, so wanted to ask for some advice here. Since Matt mentioned > it's not likely to be much faster than binary, I guess there is no need to > make the change?
There is no speed benefit. The advantage of HDF5 is that it supports better metadata, including the data types and sizes. The PETSc data format is quick, dirty, and fast.
