Hi, all, After numerous bugfixes and much helpful multiplatform testing from Chris, Doug, and Jurgen, I've pushed a release candidate PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot 1.4 up to git. You can get it from "http://github.com/drzowie/PDL-Graphics-Gnuplot";. If all goes well I will release 1.4 via CPAN in the next 48 hours.
I would greatly appreciate a quick "make test" (preferably with the environment variable GNUPLOT_INTERACTIVE set to a true value) on various platforms, to make sure 1.4 will be stable for a while. PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot has continued to mature and most of the recent bugfixes have been to address multiplatform issues. While there are several important (and some obscure) interface bugs fixed, 1.4's main advantage is that it handles the pipe to gnuplot more robustly - particularly in the way it handles interrupts (e.g. you banging on ^C while it is trying to get some work done). There is good news on the gnuplot front as well: a recent patch, which I believe is now in the gnuplot CVS, speeds up image transfer by a factor of 300, so that pipe transfer time no longer dominates plot time. This means 1k x 1k monochrome images only require a small fraction of a second to display, and 2k x 2k double-precision RGB images render in about 1 second (on my 2yo MacBook Pro; YMMV). While that performance gain doesn't affect stock gnuplot installations, it should percolate through their release process in the next few months. Happy plotting, Craig _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
