Daniel Standage

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Something isn't working with a forward reference somewhere. I have been unsuccessful in teasing this apart, but perhaps @camillescott or @luizirber might be able to shed some light.

For a while the default was `stable`, which should automagically reset whenever we issue a new stable release. That would have worked fine, except we had a conflict with a...

Forgive me while I ask for a couple clarifications. > ...save your Counttables of each buffer in a temp space...This should save the time of reading and writing Counttables several...

Ok, I understand now. Your idea is to accumulate many temporary buffers/Counttables for each band on the disk, and then to wait until the very end to combine these into...

Hmm, I'll have to try the QCF. Over the weekend, I wondered whether there would be a significant performance difference between writing the buffers as Counttables vs directly writing the...

The `-x` and `-N` parameters used to be the only way to set memory. They are still an option, but the `-M` parameter is much easier. It accepts human-readable suffixes,...

See [the khmer docs](http://khmer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/choosing-table-sizes.html) for a more thorough discussion.

This is shorthand for 20 × 109. http://python-reference.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docs/float/scientific.html Convenient notation so that you don't have to type out tons of `0`s, back when `-x` and `-N` was the only way...

If you don't specify a suffix like `200M` or `20G`, then by default the number represents the number of bytes you want to use.