Re: Octave and gzipped files

[Przemek Klosowski]

   On 08.01.2007, at 23:46, address@hidden wrote:

   > For a long-term solution, are there any good storage methods for large
   > datasets that anyone can recommend, methods that are Octave and MATLAB
   > compatible?

HDF5 has a notion of compressed datasets. I don't think HDF would give you
a size advantage, but it might be faster than the libz approach if you
accessed the data in orders different than the natural serialization: HDF
is written to handle such cases well.