SciTools/iris — pull request #1415 by rhattersley (2014-10-24 13:33:56+00:00)
Title: Faster access to PPField.lbproc

Recent tests of the fast-FieldsFile code have shown that a substantial fraction of the total file-to-Cube conversion process is taken up constructing instances of `BitwiseInt` for `field.lbproc`.

This work-in-progress PR demonstrates an alternative, compute-on-demand implementation which gets rid of the `BitwiseInt` overhead in the fast-FieldsFile case. Comments welcome.