> On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:53:15 +0200
> Jan Hoogenraad <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> For what it is worth, here the status of what I use to do for my
> commercial work.
> 
> I'm running all my projects (fairly large data ones) as perl scripts
> which output gnuplot text output.
> Then, the surrounding makefile invokes gnuplot to create gif files.
> Make spreads this work over the processors.
> Output is often sorted on html pages made from perl code.
> 
> I found this simple, robust, fairly quick, and great to debug (edit
> the command files for formatting, use the data output to share
> underlying data with colleagues).
> 
> Of course, this is not new-fashioned, hip, or object-oriented.
> On the other hand, it gives fast, interactive graphics from any
> webserver or local directory.
> 
> As the setup is extremely simple (print statements as a data and a
> command file), I found putting it into a library to be complete
> overkill.

Totally. On top of that, if you use gnuplot's binary input instead of
the default ASCII one, you'll see even better performance.

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