Efficiency of NetCDF reading and writing functions.

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Subject: Efficiency of NetCDF reading and writing functions.
From: Timothy Hume <tim.hume@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 01:45:41 +0000 (UTC)

Hello everyone,

I was wondering about how efficient the NetCDF reading and writing
functions are. In particular, it should be possible to use the NetCDF
functions:

nc_get_varm_type and
nc_put_varm_type

to read and write any arbitrary array of NetCDF data. My question is, is
it less efficient to use the put/get_varm functions than using one of the
more "specialised" functions (put_var1, put_var, put_vars, put_vara etc)?

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Tim Hume
Meteorological Service of New Zealand
PO Box 722
Wellington
New Zealand
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