On Mar 7, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On 7 March 2011 20:01, Mr. Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: >>> PDL is pretty slow, also, compared to other available software for doing >>> what it doesn't provide the speed, ease of use of other pieces of software. >> >> The above is an unsubstantiated piece of allegation that is not worth the >> time composing a response. > > > I see it differently. It shows that at least one user finds PDL slow > and hard to use compared to other products. The fact that the poster > did not articulate more specific issues with ease of use and speed > does not mean that his perceptions are wrong. > Yeah, you see it differently and so does the original poster. But without having any numbers or names to back it up, the statement that "PDL is pretty slow... compared to other available software" is absolutely a pointless statement. Anyone can say anything. If it is true, how hard can it be to say PDL is slower than <name of software> <for a specific task> <by some percentage/amount>, etc. > >>> Also, a weird thing is that PDL depends on OpenGL, so on a machine without >>> X you can't actually do anything with PDL(or you can but it takes you some >>> additional $amount_of_time).That is not normal since machines that only >>> crunch numbers needn't have X on them. >> >> PDL works fine on my MacBook without X on it. Well, I do have X, but I don't >> use it at all, and I have compiled PDL without X (because my version of X is >> really old). PDL also works fine (actually better) on my Xserve which >> certainly doesn't have X on it. > > > I think I recall hearing that at one point the CPAN install actually > depended on OpenGL. To the extent that this is correct, the poster's > concerns are entirely valid. > I am not sure what you are saying above. I just told you that I compiled PDL and use it without any X on my machine, so saying that "on a machine without X you can't actually do anything with PDL" is just plain wrong. Even adding the "(or you can but it takes you some additional $amount_of_time)" is plain wrong because I don't do anything with PDL that requires X. Puneet. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
