Spectral DM document update

[Roy Williams]

On Oct 9, 2006, at 7:53 AM, Doug Tody wrote:
>  we are talking about bulk data arrays which can be thousands
> of points in length.  Ignoring for the moment efficiency concerns, it
> is just a whole lot easier to deal with them as a single vector-valued
> data element.

I seem to recall the same discussion with VOTable about 3 years ago  
-- why not transpose the table, read it column by column so that it  
is more efficient for the computers. Does anyone else remember the  
discussion, the reasons why this was not adopted?

If this is to be revisited, then I suggest doing so in the VOTable  
WG, since the idea of transposing a table is much more general than  
representation of spectra.

Roy


California Institute of Technology
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