I downloaded the illustris_python package from Github. And when I read the scripts, I found that
there is one operation "bitwise or" in the function 'getNumPat' of the module 'snapshot'. As shown
below, the code snippet is
for j in range(nTypes):
nPart[j] = header['NumPart_Total'][j] | (header['NumPart_Total_HighWord'][j] << 32)
I don't understand why we need bitwise or operation here.
Dylan Nelson
18 Aug '20
Hi Yun,
This is a relic of past history, when we could only store 32 bit integers.
You can read about in the Gadget2 users manual - check page 33, the structure of io_header, and NallHW.
Hi, Dylan
I downloaded the illustris_python package from Github. And when I read the scripts, I found that
there is one operation "bitwise or" in the function 'getNumPat' of the module 'snapshot'. As shown
below, the code snippet is
for j in range(nTypes):
nPart[j] = header['NumPart_Total'][j] | (header['NumPart_Total_HighWord'][j] << 32)
I don't understand why we need bitwise or operation here.
Hi Yun,
This is a relic of past history, when we could only store 32 bit integers.
You can read about in the Gadget2 users manual - check page 33, the structure of
io_header, andNallHW.