This provides an important knob for speeding up the sorting depending on how many spikes are detected. For example, for recordings with sparse spiking, it is inefficient to extract and classify on small chunks of data (because you are only loading a small number of spikes into memory at a time) and the sorting is bottlenecked by the speed at which the data can be loaded from disk.
This provides an important knob for speeding up the sorting depending on how many spikes are detected. For example, for recordings with sparse spiking, it is inefficient to extract and classify on small chunks of data (because you are only loading a small number of spikes into memory at a time) and the sorting is bottlenecked by the speed at which the data can be loaded from disk.