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avlbalance - Control the use of automatic object index balancing
Synopsis
gridlabd --avlbalance filename.glm
Description
The --avlbalance command line option is used to toggle the use of automatic object index balancing routines.
Normally, the object index is automatically rebalanced to prevent low entropy lists from creating inefficient search trees when the object_tree_balance global variable is set to 1 or TRUE. When it is set to 0 or FALSE the tree balancing is disabled.