[Babase] conversion run?

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Thu Jun 7 13:48:04 EDT 2007


YAY!!!! no errors!!! :-D  Thats really great.  In that case, shall I go 
ahead and add in the other years today and tomorrow (through 88)?

Lacey

Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 06/07/2007 11:42:21 AM, Lacey Maryott wrote:
>> Hey Karl,
>>   I was wondering if you know why the conversion has taken 15+ hours 
>> to run, does something seem to be VERY wrong, or is it just the new 
>> census data slowing it down :-\
>
> Long contiguous series of "old style" census rows, that do not
> begin when the individual first appears, take a long time
> to interpolate.  I did not bother optimizing for this case
> because I figured it wouldn't matter.  (And I'm not sure
> exactly what's possible.  Trouble is that a whole lot of
> uninterpolating and interpolating and destruction and
> creation of MEMBERS rows needs to go on.)  As you put
> more "real" census rows in and reduce the "block" where
> there's just "old" census rows I'd expect the
> interpolation to speed up some.
>
> Come time to do this in the new system you might find
> things will go faster if you, for instance,
> begin by putting the "new style" census rows
> in at the "endpoints", say the first and last
> month of the year, and then "fill-in" the
> middle months.
>
>
>    It's making me scared there are
>> going to be a ton of errors.. haha
>
> So far no errors and it should be done in a few minutes.
>
> There.  Done.  No errors.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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Lacey Maryott
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Department of Biology
Duke University
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