[Plplot-devel] Release plans

2015-01-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
To Arjen, Phil, and Jim: I am addressing this post mostly to you guys because you are the only ones I am aware of that are still working on substantial (i.e., non bug-fix) changes for this release cycle. As release manager, I really appreciate how hard all of you are working on improving PLplot i

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

2015-01-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Jim: On 2015-01-26 12:02-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: > As Phil points out, this is a minor performance optimization because the difference in a 2 ms memory allocation vs and a 0.07 ms memory allocation is not significant given the number of 2D allocations a typical program would make. I'm always a

[Plplot-devel] Fwd: Another patch for plbuf

2015-01-26 Thread Phil Rosenberg
-- Forwarded message -- From: Phil Rosenberg Date: 26 January 2015 at 22:14 Subject: Re: Another patch for plbuf To: Jim Dishaw Hi Jim I've moved this discussion to the developer list. Yes I think that suggestion sounds correct. If rather than waiting for some feature e.g. colo

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

2015-01-26 Thread Jim Dishaw
I tried the benchmark with different level of optimizations and the performance of my simple benchmark was unaffected. Out of curiosity, I varied the sizes and got some interesting results (using Debian 3.2.60). WIth many allocations/deallocations occurring, the coalescing and pre-splitting st

[Plplot-devel] Text transformations

2015-01-26 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Does anyone on the list have a detailed understanding of haw the 3d text transformations work? I am just trying to deal with text transformations in the new wxWidgets driver and if I plug the EscText::xform values into the wxWidgets transform then I get the attached plot for example 28 page 1. As

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

2015-01-26 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Having thought about this a bit I just wanted to put some arguments against such a change too. I think there are some good reasons to not to change the way we do things. This is going to be a bit of a long and rambling email, so sorry in advance. The most important reason to stay as we are is the