[MOAB-dev] iMesh_createEnt vs iMesh_createEntArr

James Porter jvporter at wisc.edu
Tue Jun 15 00:22:59 CDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 21:29 -0500, Tim Tautges wrote:
> This will definitely affect the layout of entities in sequences.  If
> you call the individual entity version, your sequences will be laid
> out in 4k chunks; if the array version, and the arrays are > 4k long,
> that will be the sequence size.  In general, it's usually better to
> have larger sequences.  But, some of this depends on how much bending
> over backwards is being done, and whether those sequences are ever
> going to be large.

If you use the array version and always (or just usually) have < 4k
elements per array, everything works out, right? Anyway, except for that
one question, that's good enough for me. I'll just clean up the code so
that it's a little easier to follow, then.

- Jim



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