[SOLVED] Difference in performance for nbr of spells?

[seinecle]

Hi,

I have a script which generates spells for every time period, even when they are consecutive:

VERSION 1
<spell start = "2005.0" end="2005.0">
<spell start = "2005.1" end="2005.1">
<spell start = "2005.2" end="2005.2">
<spell start = "2005.3" end="2005.3">
<spell start = "2005.8" end="2005.8">

Obviously it would save space to have instead:

VERSION 2
<spell start = "2005.0" end="2005.3">
<spell start = "2005.8" end="2005.8">

My question is, is VERSION 2 leading to better computational performances or better memory management than VERSION 1 when I export the gexf in GEPHI? (I'll have 100,000 spells or more). Is it worth writing a script to convert my gexf to VERSION 2?

Thx!

Clement

[admin]

Do you have continuous or discrete time?

Here it is not an issue of how Gephi behaves but pure data consistency. The first version says that, for instance, the element DOES NOT EXISTS on the continuous period between 2005.0 and 2005.1.

I'm not sure if this what you want.

[seinecle]

Oh... I get it now! Thx.

Indeed I want continuous time, so that's version 2.

I wrote a script working in Excel which converts spells from Version 1 to Version 2, working with dates formatted like in the example. Anybody interested can drop me an email to get it.

Best,

Clement