cache and load schemes from path files?

[mattall]

Hello, I'm using Yates in a way that I must re-run initialization for large networks many times, rather than doing it once before I process a series of TMs.

I wrote functions on my fork of yates to read the text of a paths file back into a scheme [1]. Since I haven't had any prior experience with Ocaml, this was a messy processes and I no doubt could have probably made it more efficient if I knew better. After testing it out on

yates data/topologies/Tinet.dot data/demands/Tinet_mergelen_12 data/demands/Tinet_mergelen_12 data/hosts/Tinet.hosts -num-tms 1 -mcfplaced

It seems like loading in the cached paths had no real impact on the initialization time.

I was wondering if you could comment on possible ways to improve the Yates initialization time, and whether or not loading cached paths into a scheme is even a reasonable way to approach the challenge.
Thanks!
Matt
[1] mattall@21005b3

[jnfoster]

Hi Matt, In principle, it should be possible to serialize any part of YATES's initialization routine and then load it from a file or other cache. The details would depend on how you are using it. And it likely would require some OCaml hacking. Could you share a bit more about how you are using YATES (a precise command-line invocation would be ideal). Also, about how long does each run take?

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