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Re: NetCDF manual in Japanese
- Subject: Re: NetCDF manual in Japanese
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:40:36 -0600
Hi Masato,
> We are approaching the end of compiling the NetCDF manual in
> Japanese.
>
> Here are some questions in English expressions we don't understand
> clearly. I would appreciate your comments on the followings.
>
> "A variable external data type is one of a small set of netCDF types
> that have the names NC_BYTE, NC_CHAR,NC_SHORT, NC_INT,NC_FLOAT, and
> NC_DOUBLE in the C interface. NC_LONG is a deprecated synonym for
> NC_INT in the C interface."
>
> How do you explain "deprecated synonymy" in easier way?
The intended meaning is:
"NC_LONG" is an old name for the type "NC_INT". "NC_INT" is the
name we now encourage using instead. Both names are still accepted,
but we discourage the use of "NC_LONG", because on some platforms,
"long" and "int" are different sizes and confusion could result.
> "This is a two layer cache. The first (synchronous) layer is composed
> of 256 8-block buffers in memory, the second (asynchronous) layer is
> composed of 4 1024-block buffers on the SSD. This scheme works well
> when accesses proceed through the dataset in random waves roughly
> 2x1024-blocks wide."
>
> What is "random waves"? Is this a special method to access buffers?
Steve Emmerson wrote this. I'll try to get him to provide a simpler
description or explain what is meant by "random waves", since I don't
understand it either.
--Russ