Re: [Plplot-devel] Release plans

2015-01-27 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, > -Original Message- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:17 AM > To: Arjen Markus; Phil Rosenberg; Jim Dishaw; PLplot development list > Subject: Release plans > > To Arjen, Phil, and Jim: > > I am addressing this post mos

Re: [Plplot-devel] Release plans

2015-01-27 Thread Phil Rosenberg
On 27 January 2015 at 08:16, Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca] >> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 2:17 AM >> To: Arjen Markus; Phil Rosenberg; Jim Dishaw; PLplot development list >> Subject: Release plans >>

Re: [Plplot-devel] Release plans

2015-01-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-01-27 10:35- Phil Rosenberg wrote: > All line width issues are now sorted. I am very glad to hear that has been cleaned up since those issues were badly killing the rendered results of everything I have looked at so far. > The only remaining issue is the > 3d text rendering. As I men

Re: [Plplot-devel] Do we want to move plAlloc2dGrid(), plFree2dGrid, and plMinMax2dGrid

2015-01-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
For reference the question was > Would you be willing to give your official permission to adapt your > new approach for the needs of ephcom under the LGPL? On 2015-01-27 09:12-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: > You have my permission though it probably is not really needed because the algorithm is generic

Re: [Plplot-devel] Do we want to move plAlloc2dGrid(), plFree2dGrid, and plMinMax2dGrid

2015-01-27 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:17:22PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > For reference the question was > > > Would you be willing to give your official permission to adapt your > > new approach for the needs of ephcom under the LGPL? > > On 2015-01-27 09:12-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: > > > You have my permiss

Re: [Plplot-devel] Do we want to move plAlloc2dGrid(), plFree2dGrid, and plMinMax2dGrid

2015-01-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-01-27 21:39- Andrew Ross wrote: > The sane way round this [potential misalignment issue] is make two > allocations, one for the array of > pointers and one for all the data. This is still a lot more efficient > than the current multiple allocation approach, but still always > guarante

Re: [Plplot-devel] Do we want to move plAlloc2dGrid(), plFree2dGrid, and plMinMax2dGrid

2015-01-27 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Hi Alan I know we are way off topic here, but how come you are reallocating so often? Perhaps you might be interested in memory pools, or object oriented style C or even C++ for saving you some of those allocations. Phil On 27 January 2015 at 22:20, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2015-01-27 21:39-00

Re: [Plplot-devel] Release plans

2015-01-27 Thread Jim Dishaw
I have attached a patch for the plmem.c change. This was part of a larger patch that I sent to Phil for testing, but I saw your email about wanting to get things tested sooner than later. plmem.patch Description: Binary data Also, I will try to test plplot on the Mac and let you know if ther

Re: [Plplot-devel] Release plans

2015-01-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Jim said: > Also, I will try to test plplot on the Mac and let you know if there are any issues. In my opinion we have been skating on thin ice for a long time with Mac OS X because of our lack of testing on that platform so your tests of that platform would be answering an important need. > Do