NetCDF-4 Horizontal Data Read Performance with Cache Clearing

Here are my numbers for doing horizontal reads with different cache sizes.

The times are the time to read each horizontal size, reading all of them.

I realize that reading just one horizontal slice will give different (much higher) times. The reason is that when I read the first horizontal level the various caches along the way will start filling up with the following levels, and then when I read them I get very low times. So reading it this way allows the caching to work. Reading just one horizontal level and stopping the program (to clear cache), will result in the worst case scenario for the caching.

But what should I be optimizing for? Reading all horizontal levels? Or just reading one level?

cs[0]   cs[1]   cs[2]   cache(MB)       deflate shuffle read_hor(us)
0       0       0       0.0             0       0       1527
1       16      32      1.0             0       0       1577
1       16      128     1.0             0       0       1618
1       16      256     1.0             0       0       1515
1       64      32      1.0             0       0       1579
1       64      128     1.0             0       0       1586
1       64      256     1.0             0       0       1584
1       128     32      1.0             0       0       1593
1       128     128     1.0             0       0       1583
1       128     256     1.0             0       0       1571
10      16      32      1.0             0       0       2128
10      16      128     1.0             0       0       2520
10      16      256     1.0             0       0       4309
10      64      32      1.0             0       0       4083
10      64      128     1.0             0       0       1751
10      64      256     1.0             0       0       1713
10      128     32      1.0             0       0       1692
10      128     128     1.0             0       0       1862
10      128     256     1.0             0       0       1749
256     16      32      1.0             0       0       10594
256     16      128     1.0             0       0       3681
256     16      256     1.0             0       0       3074
256     64      32      1.0             0       0       3656
256     64      128     1.0             0       0       3042
256     64      256     1.0             0       0      2773
256     128     32      1.0             0       0       3828
256     128     128     1.0             0       0       2335
256     128     256     1.0             0       0       1581
1024    16      32      1.0             0       0       35622
1024    16      128     1.0             0       0       2759
1024    16      256     1.0             0       0       2912
1024    64      32      1.0             0       0       2875
1024    64      128     1.0             0       0       2868
1024    64      256     1.0             0       0       3816
1024    128     32      1.0             0       0       2780
1024    128     128     1.0             0       0       2558
1024    128     256     1.0             0       0       1628
1560    16      32      1.0             0       0       154450
1560    16      128     1.0             0       0       3063
1560    16      256     1.0             0       0       3700
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