Re: GMT output Format

Paul Wessel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.gmt.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Good point, of course.  My quick test of making a RAM disk under OSX, place a copy of etopo1m.nc there (890 Mb) and run time grdinfo etopo1m.nc was disappointing; it took about the same 8 seconds to finish as it does on the HD....

-p

On Jan 21, 2014, at 4:43 AM, walter harms <[email protected]> wrote:

> regards,
> 
> Not to mention the first step ...
> 1) figure out where the time is spend.
> 
> re,
> wh
> 
> 
> Am 21.01.2014 15:16, schrieb Eduardo A. Suárez:
>> just guessing...
>> 
>> Perhaps it is possible to have pre-computed layers of the map (ie. base
>> map, coast, etc.) and to use cat to append it.
>> 
>> Or to use GNU parallel/sem to run gmt commands in parallel whenever
>> possible.
>> 
>> Eduardo.-
>> 
>> Quoting "J.J. Green" <[email protected]>:
>> 
>>> Mark,
>>> 
>>>> Now accepting donations toward a 12-core Mac Pro!!  ;-)
>>> 
>>> While gs supports multi-threading
>>> 
>>>  http://freecode.com/projects/ghostscript/releases/282470
>>> 
>>> with -dNumRenderingThreads=n since version 8.63, I see a number
>>> of reports of it not speeding things up, but might be worth a
>>> try.
>>> 
>>> One possible workaround if your app can display SVG is to convert
>>> to that with pstoedit, I would guess (but have not tested) that
>>> a vector -> vector conversion may be quicker that rasterisation.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> Jim
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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