#1483: speed up reading metadata of HDF5 files in visit -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: rhaas | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: Other | Version: development version Keywords: CarpetHDF5 | -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- The attached patch tries to extract as much information about a dataset from the dataset name as possible. Since accessing attributes is slow but the dataset name comes for free this speeds up opening HDF5 files in VisIt drastically (I had a factor of 6 when I measured it quite a while ago).
This is certainly not the nicest way of parsing the string, one could think of sequentially looking for "name=value" constructs in the string and acting based on the name rather than just matching against all possible options.