The file docs/indexing.dox tries to provide design
information for the refactoring.
The primary change is to replace all walking of linked
lists with the use of the NCindex data structure.
Ncindex is a combination of a hash table (for name-based
lookup) and a vector (for walking the elements in the index).
Additionally, global vectors are added to NC_HDF5_FILE_INFO_T
to support direct mapping of an e.g. dimid to the NC_DIM_INFO_T
object. These global vectors exist for dimensions, types, and groups
because they have globally unique id numbers.
WARNING:
1. since libsrc4 and libsrchdf4 share code, there are also
changes in libsrchdf4.
2. Any outstanding pull requests that change libsrc4 or libhdf4
are likely to cause conflicts with this code.
3. The original reason for doing this was for performance improvements,
but as noted elsewhere, this may not be significant because
the meta-data read performance apparently is being dominated
by the hdf5 library because we do bulk meta-data reading rather
than lazy reading.
(I hope) metadata mechanism. This mostly just adds new pieces of
code (e.g. nclistmap) and does some minor fixes.
It should be transparent to everything else.
The next set of changes will be the big step.
cmake error CMP0002: duplicate name
- Assuming that all compilers treat floating point constants as double,
remove d suffix from DBLVAL in nc_test4 and examples/C
2. Fixed plugin building (nc_test4/hdf5plugins)
to be done properly by cmake and automake.
4. Duplicated part of the nc_test4 filter test code
in examples/C
An incomplete and untested set of hooks exist
for OS-X in nc_test4/findplugins.in. They need testing.
tst_h_rdc0 depends on ncdump_tst_netcdf4, which isn't build if HAVE_BASH
isn't true. But CMake errors out with:
-- Bash shell not found; disabling shell script tests.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1521 (SET_PROPERTY):
SET_PROPERTY given TEST names that do not exist:
tst_h_rdc0
There are also some tests which cdl_do_maps depends on, but it is
also not defined if HAVE_BASH isn't true. CMake errors out with:
CMake Error at examples/CDL/CMakeLists.txt:10 (SET_TESTS_PROPERTIES):
SET_TESTS_PROPERTIES Can not find test to add properties to:
cdl_do_comps
This patch makes these tests conditional, making CMake happy.
