A Friday 15 May 2009 20:57:27 David Fokkema escrigué: > > Uh, you mean tables with variable length fields? No, I don't think this > > is going to happen (unless a different kind of table would be > > implemented). The reason is that most of the performance in PyTables > > comes from the fact that you deal with fixed-length data types. If you > > need variable length types, my recommendation is to keep them separately > > in VLArray objects and store references to them in Table or other *Array > > objects, as I suggested above. > > Ah, I see. Good point! I'll continue to use VLArray's instead. > > BTW, thank you for all your very detailed responses. They help > enormously and show your commitment to your excellent work.
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