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The current Java Class Library for access to FITS files was designed for the VLT Data Flow System pipeline subsystem. ... all types of headers are decoded, . ... As the code has not been optimized, data access is slow e.g. on a 160 MHz machine and no JIT, 32-bit real images are read at 50k values/sec, 16-bit integer images at 80k values/sec while table data are read at 10k values/sec. FITS keywords are decoded at a rate of 2-3k keywords/sec depending significantly on their types. ...

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lsst.tcc љ 1.2.2-3-g89ecb63 . ... Files . FileљList . ... include . ... instPos.h . ... 49 љ class InstPosition { . ... 51 љ explicit InstPosition (std::string const &name = "?" ... 56 љ std::string getName () const { return _name; }; . ... 61 љ void setName (std::string const &name); . ... 82 љ std::string _name; . ... 84 љ static std::map<std::string, double> const _nameAngMap; // map of name: rotAzMechAng . ... tcc::InstPosition::InstPosition . InstPosition(std::string const &name="?" ...