----- Original Message ----- From: MNibble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 7:57 am Subject: Re: Performance and precise
> Xavier Noria wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2005, at 9:51, MNibble wrote: > > > >> I'm ask to think of an solution for an Webapp that does some > math on > >> data in an database. > >> > >> The problem is, the DB has about 40.000.000 entries, the webapp > needs > >> to do mainly math on that data, the math should be > "traceable", so no > >> wild round offs. > > > > > > The explanation is too generic to guess whether Perl is suitable > or > > not. It depends for instance on "the math", how intensive are > the > > calculations, how often they need to be done, etc. Depending on > the > > details pure Perl can be just fine, or Perl + Stored Procedures, > or > > Perl + C, Perl + Math::Pari, Perl + PDL, .... Can you be more > specific > > please? > > > > Just in case it helps Math::FixedPrecission can take care of > precission > > in floating-point arithmetic if you need that kind of control. > There > > are modules to deal with integers of arbitrary size or > fractions. Maybe > > you could search for "Math::" in search.cpan.org and see what's > there.> > > -- fxn > > > > Well i would really like to pass more information, but right now i > only > have something on the math. It would be something like the total > average, and general statics on that data. > > I don't even know the database we will use. I'm even open to > suggestions > which of the DB out there is best for that, while i know that most > operations will be reading from the DB. > > The data should be accessible from the net ( Webserver ). Have you considered SAS ? SAS is designed for your exact scenario. HTH, Mark G. > > > with regrads > > MNibble > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
