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Web and network friendly simulation data formats
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Simplify Meld format #4

Closed xogeny closed 10 years ago

xogeny commented 10 years ago

At the moment, tables have a complex structure. I suspect things can be simplified quite a bit. This isn't a big deal, because it only affects the headers though.

Basically, the question is whether the indices sub-document is required.

xogeny commented 10 years ago

I'm leaving this open, but short of shortening key names (as a way to reduce overall file size), I'm not sure there is much to thrift out at this point.

xogeny commented 10 years ago

With 9e7b9df5f933e562e80b073da8a1c86d60361a2b the keys in both wall and meld files are represented entirely by variables. This means I can change the keys to terser representations in one place and they will apply everywhere. Shorter keys could help shrink the size of both file formats (although it is unclear if it will be enough to justify any lack of clarity such a move might introduce).

xogeny commented 10 years ago

As of 6ca0d2799455d7563d24de840c2037bc47aac2a3, I think I've done all I can to get the best efficiency possible.