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NeurodataWithoutBorders / matnwb

A Matlab interface for reading and writing NWB files
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Do not write datasets to HDF5 if they are unassigned #16

Closed mcafaro closed 5 years ago

mcafaro commented 6 years ago

PyNWB only writes datasets to HDF5 if they have been set. MatNWB writes all datasets to disk even if they have not been assigned/set by the user or a default value. I'm not sure if this discrepancy will cause issues in the future but it is inefficient to create these empty datasets and it means you have a bunch of empty datasets crowding up the HDF5 file (not great when viewed in HDFView for instance).

lawrence-mbf commented 5 years ago

This is no longer true as of v0.2.1