A segfault and NaN driven series of disconnected ideas, analyses and just plain silly posts about computational biochemistry, synthetic biology and microbiology.
Thursday 24 August 2023
Reading compressed molecular files on NFS
There are some tasks that make one feel like a failed door-to-door evangelist, one amongst these is proselyting about using compressed files on networked file systems. Namely, NFS are slower than local SSD drives, so most often it is actually quicker to read compressed files in memory rather than decompress them to disk. Here are two Python snippets for dealing with small molecule files.
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