On 7 March 2011 20:01, Mr. Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: >> PDL is pretty slow, also, compared to other available software for doing >> what it doesn't provide the speed, ease of use of other pieces of software. > > The above is an unsubstantiated piece of allegation that is not worth the > time composing a response.
I see it differently. It shows that at least one user finds PDL slow and hard to use compared to other products. The fact that the poster did not articulate more specific issues with ease of use and speed does not mean that his perceptions are wrong. >> Also, a weird thing is that PDL depends on OpenGL, so on a machine without X >> you can't actually do anything with PDL(or you can but it takes you some >> additional $amount_of_time).That is not normal since machines that only >> crunch numbers needn't have X on them. > > PDL works fine on my MacBook without X on it. Well, I do have X, but I don't > use it at all, and I have compiled PDL without X (because my version of X is > really old). PDL also works fine (actually better) on my Xserve which > certainly doesn't have X on it. I think I recall hearing that at one point the CPAN install actually depended on OpenGL. To the extent that this is correct, the poster's concerns are entirely valid. Daniel. -- Writing software to spec is like walking on water... It's easy as long as it's frozen. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
