[Users] Slow reading of Carpet data in visit 2.13

[Yosef Zlochower]

Hi,

  To avoid the slowdown, select "open file as type CarpetHDF5" rather 
than "open file as type Guess from file name/extension"


On 06/04/2018 02:43 PM, Yosef Zlochower wrote:
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> Hi,
>     I was trying to load CarpetIOHDF5 2D data with visit 2.10 and 2.13. I
> compiled both using the build_visit scripts with the --hdf5 option. The
> 2.13 takes much longer to load.
> 
> For example, with a file containing 3 timelevels, 2.10 takes under a
> second to load, and 2.13 takes about 7 seconds. This gets much worse as
> the number of time levels is increased. It took 2 minutes to open a file
> with 10 timelevels in 2.13, but under a second with  2.10
> 
> Has anyone else seen this? Is there a workaround?
> 
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