Hi Valery: Thanks for your feedback.
It was good to hear that the old ./configure method generated by autotools was still working. That is deprecated though (because nobody has volunteered to continue to maintain it), and you get access to additional build options (e.g., the experimental new SVG device driver) if you stick with the recommended cmake build following the directions at (http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/). On 2006-12-14 17:32+0800 Valery Pipin wrote: > BTW yorick is still the fastest option to run plplot. I was impressed its > speed compare to python that is more than order magnitude slower! This is > especially notable on the large amount of data. > I really don't understand why people use python for the numerical processing > of data! Perhaps I'm using it in wrong way. Array processing is slow for Python without the Numeric extension. However, have you tried some speed comparisons for the standard examples? The array preparation in those examples is done with Numeric which should be much (at least an order of magnitude) faster than ordinary Python array processing. (The PLplot interface doesn't care if the the array is an ordinary Python array or a Numeric array, but for serious numerical array work you should be using Numeric because of its large speed advantages.) Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
