Size of float in disk_log

[Jouni Rynö]

Or change the floats first to binary ..., that helps too.

<<Pi/float>> = 3.14 (about).

Jouni

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 11:16 +0000, Joel Reymont wrote:
> What about storing floats as ints with a given precision and dividing  
> by 10,000 or 100,000 on read?
> 
> Since records are tuples you can also replace the tag (element 1)  
> with a number when storing and with a tag after retrieving the record.
> 
> On Jan 9, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Richard Cameron wrote:
> 
> >
> > I'm using the (extremely useful) disk_log module to dump out a  
> > timeseries of numerical data to the disk. It's running in internal  
> > mode and behaving wonderfully with just one minor gripe:
> >
> > It seems to use a *hell of a lot* of disk space. The main culprit  
> > seems to be trying to serialize floating point numbers (of which I  
> > have lots and lots, but I acknowledge that most telephony  
> > applications don't). Doing a unix "strings" on the log file yields  
> > lots of stuff like this:
> >
> > c1.79827350000000003553e+00
> > .
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