Le 09/10/2011 21:18, Sven Schreiber a écrit :
> Am 09.10.2011 18:48, schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
>> On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>>
>>>> You probably thought about that yourself, but are there other contexts
>>>> where gretl could give gnuplot more than it can handle?
>>> Yes, that occurred to me too, but I haven't yet tried to do anything
>>> about it.
>> And I'd be tempted to add: time is on our side. Even if there were any,
>> we've been using gnuplot for long enough that I'm confident that they
>> ought to be pretty unlikely in real life, and probably easily fixable.
>>
> I'm not on Windows right now, otherwise I would try to provoke the crash
> by simply throwing many many data at gnuplot (from within gretl) to
> produce a scatterplot.
Well, I did try with the same XXL dataset which did work fine for the 
Lorenz curve...
> And if it were possible to replicate the crash, I
> would say it should be prevented.
...and gretl didn't crash although it failed to show the scatterplot 
producing the same gnuplot's error message.
> But of course you're right, this isn't
> terribly important.
you're right, it isn't! I dont' think that handling a 10-million obs 
dataset is of every day use :)

Best,
Artur

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