Can anyone explain what is basket, which appears in ntuples.
Hi,
With each branch of TTree (ntuple) is associated a TBasket object. This TBasket object manages the in-memory buffer where the TBranch writes the platform independent binary version of the object (the result of streaming).
Each time a call to TTree::Fill is made (and hence a call to TBranch::Fill for each branch), the object or variable that the branch points to are streamed into the TBasket buffer, whose size is determined by the buffersize parameter of the TTree::Branch call creating a branch.
Whenever one of those buffer is full, it is optionally compressed and then the corresponding TBasket and its buffer are written to disk and a new TBasket is created to hold the next entries.
Cheers,
Philippe.