[julia-users] Re: product of Int64 and Float64 is Int64

2016-10-19 Thread Steven Sagaert
agreed On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 3:53:00 PM UTC+2, Krisztián Pintér wrote: > > > i know i shouldn't, but i'm kinda angry at this "1." notation. saving one > character really worth losing readability? also leading to errors like > this. personally, i would not even allow this syntax at

[julia-users] Re: Parallel file access

2016-10-18 Thread Steven Sagaert
as myself)? > > ---Zachary > > > > On Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 7:51:19 AM UTC-4, Steven Sagaert wrote: >> >> that because SQLLite isn't a multi-user DB server but a single user >> embedded (desktop) db. Use the right tool for the job. >> >> On

[julia-users] Re: Parallel file access

2016-10-16 Thread Steven Sagaert
and up a separate multithreaded DB server just for > this. Would you be kind enough to give us an example of simple (i.e. not > client-server) multiprocess DB access in Julia? > > On Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 9:40:17 AM UTC-4, Steven Sagaert wrote: >> >> It still surpri

[julia-users] Re: Parallel file access

2016-10-15 Thread Steven Sagaert
It still surprises me how in the scientific computing field people still refuse to learn about databases and then replicate database functionality in files in a complicated and probably buggy way. HDF5 is one example, there are many others. If you want to to fancy search (i.e. speedup search

[julia-users] Re: Julia-i18n logo proposal

2016-10-05 Thread Steven Sagaert
How about using fundamental constants? either from mathematics: pi, e, i or from physics : G, h, c On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 2:47:04 AM UTC+2, Waldir Pimenta wrote: > > Hi all. I made a proposal for the logo for the Julia-i18n organization: > http://imgh.us/julia-i18n_1.svg > > It uses

[julia-users] Re: Idea: Julia Standard Libraries and Distributions

2016-09-13 Thread Steven Sagaert
for me a distribution is more than just a gobbled together bunch of disparate packages: ideally it should have a common style and work with common datastructures for input/ouput (between methods) to exchange data. That's the real crux of the problem, not the fact that you need to manually

[julia-users] Re: Idea: Julia Standard Libraries and Distributions

2016-09-13 Thread Steven Sagaert
I' m in favor of this. In fact I asked for the same thing in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/3g8zXaXfQqk although in a more cryptic way :) BTW: java already has something like this: next to the 2 big standard distributions javaSE & javaEE (there's also a third specialized

Re: [julia-users] I'd like to see something like the Rust platform proposal in the Julia ecosystem

2016-08-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
ded which is bad for performance and style. That kind of discussion is for example happening in OCAML to come to a platform and how to resolve the ocaml standard lib vs Jane street lib schism. On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 5:19:17 PM UTC+2, Steven Sagaert wrote: > > I think the mos

Re: [julia-users] I'd like to see something like the Rust platform proposal in the Julia ecosystem

2016-08-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
>> >> On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 2:08:06 AM UTC-7, Tim Holy wrote: >>> >>> module MyMetaPackage >>> >>> using Reexport >>> >>> @reexport using PackageA >>> @reexport using PackageB >>> ... >>> >

Re: [julia-users] I'd like to see something like the Rust platform proposal in the Julia ecosystem

2016-08-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
gt; > On Mon, Aug 01 2016, Steven Sagaert wrote: > > > see https://aturon.github.io/blog/2016/07/27/rust-platform/ > >

[julia-users] I'd like to see something like the Rust platform proposal in the Julia ecosystem

2016-08-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
see https://aturon.github.io/blog/2016/07/27/rust-platform/

[julia-users] Re: How to close an HttpServer?

2015-11-24 Thread Steven Sagaert
There isn't a function for that. You can shut it down either by killing the process or by building in your program a "shutdown" message that when it receives this http request then exits the julia program by calling quit() When I wrote a HttpServer based service I also thought this was a

[julia-users] Re: ANN: ParallelAccelerator.jl v0.1 released

2015-10-21 Thread Steven Sagaert
coming multithreading in julia in the future. Will they play nice together or fight each other? Sincerely, Steven Sagaert On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 2:57:17 AM UTC+2, Lindsey Kuper wrote: > > The High Performance Scripting team at Intel Labs is pleased to announce > the release

Re: [julia-users] Re: Implementing mapreduce parallel model (not general multi-threading) ? easy and enough ?

2015-10-07 Thread Steven Sagaert
I think what is meant is that in HPC typically this is done via MPI which is just a low level approach where you explicitely have to specify all the data communication (compared to Hadoop & Spark where it is implicit). > > > The only codes that really nail it are carefully handcrafted HPC

Re: [julia-users] Re: IDE for Julia

2015-09-21 Thread Steven Sagaert
+1 & to add to Uwe's post: AFAIK JuliaStudio is based on Qt (& QtCreator I believe). I thought that JuliaStudio was a nice start (also based on QtCreator). I wish a group would fork it and develop it further in the direction of RStudio. On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 10:08:23 AM UTC+2,

[julia-users] Re: What does the `|>` operator do? (possibly a Gtk.jl question)

2015-09-20 Thread Steven Sagaert
Think of it as unix pipes. F# uses the exact same notation and in fact in F# the |> notation is now more prevalent than "regular" function application notation because if read left to right instead right to left. You could also think of it a one special case of the monadic (oops! I said the

[julia-users] Sparse matrix type signature in the wrong direction

2015-09-09 Thread Steven Sagaert
I think that SparseMatrixCSC{Tv,Ti} should be SparseMatrixCSC{Ti,Tv} Why? It's inconsistent with the mental picture of a map of integer indices -> values & inconsistent with it's analog type signature of a Dict: e.g. Dict{String,Float} which is key -> value type. One might think is an

[julia-users] Re: Trivia question: Quaternions (ℍ), Octonions (핆), Sedenions (핊) etc. numbers are not supported, but are the in libraries or needed? And complex, vs. in others, say MATLAB..

2015-08-28 Thread Steven Sagaert
quaternions might be useful for 3D rotations but higher order constructs like octionions, etc will not be very useful for numerical computing. They might be useful to pure mathematicians (or as an alternative math formalism for some (speculative) QFT stuff) but not in applied math, and pure

[julia-users] Re: Julia-lang TCO / femto-lisp TCO

2015-07-07 Thread Steven Sagaert
see http://blog.zachallaun.com/post/jumping-julia to work around not having TCO and still use recursion to traverse LARGE data structures without stackoverflow. That's also how a bunch of other languages (e.g. Scala F#) do this (called trampolining). On Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 3:49:14 PM

[julia-users] Re: Julia-lang TCO / femto-lisp TCO

2015-07-07 Thread Steven Sagaert
, Steven G. Johnson wrote: On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 11:11:19 AM UTC-4, Steven Sagaert wrote: see http://blog.zachallaun.com/post/jumping-julia to work around not having TCO and still use recursion to traverse LARGE data structures without stackoverflow. That's also how a bunch of other

[julia-users] Re: Escher/Compose/Gadfly for heavy visualization

2015-07-02 Thread Steven Sagaert
You might want to check out https://plot.ly. On Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 4:34:20 PM UTC+2, Tom Breloff wrote: Yes the question was intentionally broad, because I wanted to get a birds-eye view of the state of web-visualization in Julia, and whether it's mature/performant enough to compete

[julia-users] Re: Announcement: Escher.jl - a toolkit for beautiful Web UIs in pure Julia

2015-06-09 Thread Steven Sagaert
Looks super! Nice to see such a cool mix of features (functional, reactive, websocket, html5, Tex support,...) I just have one concern: since the GUI is immutable and involves a lot of julia code generation (and hence compilation): what's the performance like? On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 6:23:21

[julia-users] Re: Roadmap for 0.4?

2015-05-21 Thread Steven Sagaert
Any estimate when 0.4 will be available? I saw june 2015 in Github but is this realistic? On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 at 6:41:29 PM UTC+2, D johnson wrote: I saw the Roadmap for 0.3 here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4853 But I cannot find the Roadmap for 0.4... Does anyone

Re: [julia-users] Suspending Garbage Collection for Performance...good idea or bad idea?

2015-05-15 Thread Steven Sagaert
I'd say that manual memory management is usually going to be faster than GC unless you have really bad manual management and a very good GC. The best a good GC can hope for is to be close to manual management. That's one of the reasons the majority of systems software is still in C/C++ (memory

Re: [julia-users] Suspending Garbage Collection for Performance...good idea or bad idea?

2015-05-12 Thread Steven Sagaert
it was an interesting read. The emulated region based management sounds quite interesting in fact. Will go read up on the two Steven Sagaert mentioned. Haven't read too much about G1 and nothing at all on Azul Zing!

[julia-users] What's the reasoning to have 2 different import mechanisms: using vs import?

2015-05-12 Thread Steven Sagaert
As far as I can tell using is almost like import except with import you can extend the functions and with using not (but then with using module you also can extend them???) and there are some differences in name resolution (fully qualified or not). Is it a performance optimization (reducing

Re: [julia-users] Suspending Garbage Collection for Performance...good idea or bad idea?

2015-05-11 Thread Steven Sagaert
Isn't that similar to smart pointers/automatic resource management in C++? On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 10:24:08 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote: I would love to figure out a way to bring the kind of automatic resource and memory release that Rust has to Julia, but the cost is some

Re: [julia-users] Suspending Garbage Collection for Performance...good idea or bad idea?

2015-05-11 Thread Steven Sagaert
Rust isn't the only language to use such ideas. Basically it's region based memory management http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management. Real time Java uses this. For a recent development next to Rust, check out ParaSail https://forge.open-do.org/plugins/moinmoin/parasail/.

Re: [julia-users] Suspending Garbage Collection for Performance...good idea or bad idea?

2015-05-11 Thread Steven Sagaert
11, 2015 at 2:21:58 PM UTC+2, Steven Sagaert wrote: Rust isn't the only language to use such ideas. Basically it's region based memory management http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management. Real time Java uses this. For a recent development next to Rust, check out ParaSail

Re: [julia-users] Re: Performance variability - can we expect Julia to be the fastest (best) language?

2015-05-03 Thread Steven Sagaert
You really should ask the language designers about this for a definite answer but (one of the ) the reason(s) strings are immutable in julia (and in Java others) is that it makes them good keys for Dicts. On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 7:16:24 PM UTC+2, Jameson wrote: IOBuffer does not inherit

[julia-users] Re: the state of GUI toolkits?

2015-05-02 Thread Steven Sagaert
julia? This will help as I'm reading the Qt5 docs. Thanks. On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 4:59:43 AM UTC-4, Steven Sagaert wrote: I think it depends how you want to build the GUI: if you want to do it old school by calling a bunch of julia functions/methods that wrap the C++ methods than yes

[julia-users] Re: the state of GUI toolkits?

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
with clean syntax to define signals/slots to connect to julia callbacks. Could you post some simple/hypothetical code that you would ideally call from within julia? This will help as I'm reading the Qt5 docs. Thanks. On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 4:59:43 AM UTC-4, Steven Sagaert wrote: I

[julia-users] Re: the state of GUI toolkits?

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
One could of course let Qt/C++ be in charge as he main loop and just run julia as an embedded engine and expose the julia functionality one wants to call as QtObjects methods so that these can be called from QML. On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 3:49:12 PM UTC+2, Steven Sagaert wrote: The idea

Re: [julia-users] Re: Performance variability - can we expect Julia to be the fastest (best) language?

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
--Tim On Friday, May 01, 2015 01:25:50 AM Steven Sagaert wrote: I think the performance comparisons between Julia Python are flawed. They seem to be between standard Python Julia but since Julia is all about scientific programming it really should be between SciPi Julia. Since

Re: [julia-users] Performance variability - can we expect Julia to be the fastest (best) language?

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
Scott, You shouldn't take my reply personal. It wasn't really about the specific string case you mentioned but more in general about Python julia performance comparisons. On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 3:10:14 PM UTC+2, Scott Jones wrote: On May 1, 2015, at 8:23 AM, Steven Sagaert steven

Re: [julia-users] Re: Performance of Distributed Arrays

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
on such things at the moment? On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 4:50:39 AM UTC-4, Steven Sagaert wrote: I'd be nice to see a distributed array implemented on top of MPI (or similar high perf distribution libs) like Fortran co-arrays but since I'm out of academia and do not have access to real

Re: [julia-users] Re: Performance variability - can we expect Julia to be the fastest (best) language?

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
Obviously a particular system might have a well-tuned library routine that's faster than our equivalent. But think about it: is having a slow interpreter, and relying on code to spend all its time in pre-baked library kernels the *right* way to get performance? That's just the same

Re: [julia-users] Re: Performance variability - can we expect Julia to be the fastest (best) language?

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 7:23:40 PM UTC+2, Steven G. Johnson wrote: On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 1:12:00 PM UTC-4, Steven Sagaert wrote: That wasn't what I was saying. I like the philosophy behind julia. But in practice (as of now) even in julia you still have to code in a certain style

[julia-users] Re: the state of GUI toolkits?

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
I think it depends how you want to build the GUI: if you want to do it old school by calling a bunch of julia functions/methods that wrap the C++ methods than yes a lot of C++ classes/methods will need to be wrapped. However if you stick to the new school approach i.e. QtQuick + QML then a lot

[julia-users] Re: the state of GUI toolkits?

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
The advantage of doing the modern way is that you then can also use GUI design tools like Qt Quick designer to graphically do your GUI layout, let it generate QML and you can just copy paste that into your julia GUI code. On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 10:59:43 AM UTC+2, Steven Sagaert wrote: I

Re: [julia-users] Re: Performance variability - can we expect Julia to be the fastest (best) language?

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
I think the performance comparisons between Julia Python are flawed. They seem to be between standard Python Julia but since Julia is all about scientific programming it really should be between SciPi Julia. Since SciPi uses much of the same underlying libs in Fortran/C the performance gap

Re: [julia-users] Re: Performance of Distributed Arrays

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
I'd be nice to see a distributed array implemented on top of MPI (or similar high perf distribution libs) like Fortran co-arrays but since I'm out of academia and do not have access to real supercomputers anymore I'm actually more interested in wrappers to cloud base distributed computing

Re: [julia-users] Re: Performance variability - can we expect Julia to be the fastest (best) language?

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 12:26:54 PM UTC+2, Scott Jones wrote: On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 4:25:50 AM UTC-4, Steven Sagaert wrote: I think the performance comparisons between Julia Python are flawed. They seem to be between standard Python Julia but since Julia is all about scientific

[julia-users] Re: the state of GUI toolkits?

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Sagaert
PM UTC+2, Andreas Lobinger wrote: just for the record: On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 11:07:53 AM UTC+2, Steven Sagaert wrote: The advantage of doing the modern way is that you then can also use GUI design tools like Qt Quick designer to graphically do your GUI layout, let it generate QML

[julia-users] Re: the state of GUI toolkits?

2015-04-29 Thread Steven Sagaert
I'd love to see a Qt5/QML wrapper. I find Qt5 superior to Gtk. Also it's available on more platforms (mobile). On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 9:46:52 AM UTC+2, Andreas Lobinger wrote: Hello colleagues, what is status of availability and usecases for GUI toolkits. I see Tk and Gtk on the

[julia-users] Re: the state of GUI toolkits?

2015-04-29 Thread Steven Sagaert
are the advantages of Qt5 over Qt4? Is there functionality missing from Qt4? On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 3:52:40 AM UTC-4, Steven Sagaert wrote: I'd love to see a Qt5/QML wrapper. I find Qt5 superior to Gtk. Also it's available on more platforms (mobile). On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 9:46:52 AM

[julia-users] Re: Julia and Spark

2015-04-16 Thread Steven Sagaert
yes that's a solid approach. For my personal julia - java integrations I also run the JVM in a separate process. On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 9:30:28 PM UTC+2, wil...@gmail.com wrote: 1) simply wrap the Spark java API via JavaCall. This is the low level approach. BTW I've experimented

[julia-users] Re: Julia Installation Conflict with R

2015-04-16 Thread Steven Sagaert
Besides using the R distrib from revolutionanalytics.com (which is based on intel MKL) you could also completely isolate R julia their dependencies by running them in separate Docker containers. On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 1:37:52 AM UTC+2, Yudong Ma wrote: Hi. I am pretty new to Julia,

[julia-users] Re: Julia Installation Conflict with R

2015-04-16 Thread Steven Sagaert
constraints on its pcre version requirement. -Tony On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 12:40:50 AM UTC-7, Steven Sagaert wrote: Besides using the R distrib from revolutionanalytics.com (which is based on intel MKL) you could also completely isolate R julia their dependencies by running them

[julia-users] Re: Julia and Spark

2015-04-15 Thread Steven Sagaert
I've been comtemplating writing a high level wrapper to Spark myself since I'm interested in both Julia Spark but I was waiting for Julia 0.4 to finalize before even starting. One can do the integration on several levels: 1) simply wrap the Spark java API via JavaCall. This is the low level

[julia-users] Re: Julia Installation Conflict with R

2015-04-15 Thread Steven Sagaert
I have both julia 0.3.7 R v 3.1.2 on the same Ubuntu 14.04. I first installed julia later on R. The R distrib is however the one from Revolution R Open 8.0.2 beta, not the standard one. Seems to work fine. On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 1:37:52 AM UTC+2, Yudong Ma wrote: Hi. I am pretty

[julia-users] does pca() center the data?

2015-04-06 Thread Steven Sagaert
does pca() center the input output data or do you have to do that yourself?

Re: [julia-users] does pca() center the data?

2015-04-06 Thread Steven Sagaert
the one from the standard lib On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 4:01:00 PM UTC+2, Andreas Noack wrote: Which pca? 2015-04-06 6:53 GMT-07:00 Steven Sagaert steven@gmail.com javascript:: does pca() center the input output data or do you have to do that yourself?

Re: [julia-users] does pca() center the data?

2015-04-06 Thread Steven Sagaert
thanks! On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 6:43:54 PM UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote: Looks like yes: https://github.com/JuliaStats/MultivariateStats.jl/blob/master/src/pca.jl On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Steven Sagaert steven@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I meant the one

Re: [julia-users] does pca() center the data?

2015-04-06 Thread Steven Sagaert
I meant the one in MultivariateStats package On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 6:19:51 PM UTC+2, Andreas Noack wrote: There is no pca in Julia Base 2015-04-06 9:16 GMT-07:00 Steven Sagaert steven@gmail.com javascript:: the one from the standard lib On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 4:01:00 PM

Re: [julia-users] Why is Gadfly so slow when plotting it's first plot?

2015-03-29 Thread Steven Sagaert
could try. See: https://github.com/dcjones/Gadfly.jl/issues/251#issuecomment-38626716 and: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/devdocs/sysimg/ The PR to make that simpler and module-specific is here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8745 On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Steven Sagaert

[julia-users] Why is Gadfly so slow when plotting it's first plot?

2015-03-28 Thread Steven Sagaert
Hi, I use Gadfly to create simple barplots save them as SVG. Since this is for usage in a web page, I've only installed Gadfly, not extra backends. Now when doing the first plot it is incredibly slow but much better on subsequent plots. Why is that? Is there anything that can be done to speed

[julia-users] Re: Some simple use cases for multi-threading

2015-03-19 Thread Steven Sagaert
also the fork-join threadpool in Java. On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 7:12:13 PM UTC+1, Sebastian Good wrote: Task stealing parallelism is an increasingly common use case and easy to program. e.g. Cilk, Grand Central Dispatch, On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 11:52:37 PM UTC-4, Viral Shah

[julia-users] Re: Some simple use cases for multi-threading

2015-03-14 Thread Steven Sagaert
How about a multithreaded (+ coroutine as it is now) HttpServer? On Friday, March 13, 2015 at 4:52:37 AM UTC+1, Viral Shah wrote: I am looking to put together a set of use cases for our multi-threading capabilities - mainly to push forward as well as a showcase. I am thinking of starting

[julia-users] Re: 3D interactive plots in IJulia

2015-03-04 Thread Steven Sagaert
Hi Simon, The screenshots looks nice but I have to ask: why build a high performance native 2D/3D scientific plotting lib based on openGL from scratch when you could wrap mature native libs like VTK or Mayavi? I mean in R you have RGL which is also directly based on openGL. You can use it for

[julia-users] Re: Private functions in the modules

2015-02-27 Thread Steven Sagaert
It's not a bug it's a fature ;) I found this odd also when I was new to julia and complained about it. I wanted strict private visibillity like in C++/Java/C#, but the julia team does not want this. The only thing export does is that you can call the function without the module prefix. On

[julia-users] Re: movingpastasquishedcaseconvention?

2015-02-06 Thread Steven Sagaert
I prefer Java's camelcase: searchSortedLast: it's the same length as all lower case but clearer. On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 8:12:43 PM UTC+1, David James wrote: Hello, The title of this post is Moving Past a Squished Case Convention not Moving Pastas Quiche :) The Julia

[julia-users] LAPACKException(1) during SVD

2015-01-30 Thread Steven Sagaert
when doing an SVD of a large matrix I get ERROR: LAPACKException(1) in gesdd! at linalg/lapack.jl:1046 in svdfact! at linalg/factorization.jl:660 in svdfact at linalg/factorization.jl:664 It's definitely something related to the data because it works on different matrices the code has been

Re: [julia-users] Re: Almost at 500 packages!

2015-01-29 Thread Steven Sagaert
Since R basically has the same multiple dispatch I don't think this is what explains the difference with CRAN. I think the difference is that the julia repository is based on github which enables collaboration whereas CRAN is basically a file server without any collaboaration tools. On

[julia-users] Re: Almost at 500 packages!

2015-01-29 Thread Steven Sagaert
A growing ecosystem is great but let's not fall into the trap of bigger is better. CPAN ( CRAN which is modeled after it) is/was huge but that hasn't prevented the long decline of Perl. Sometimes less is more, meaning: I'd rather have a smaller number of high quality larger

Re: [julia-users] Re: Almost at 500 packages!

2015-01-28 Thread Steven Sagaert
I couldn't agree more. Personally I find CRAN to be a mess. There's no organization to it. You can only find something in there by googling. Also the documentation of R packages is very spartan... On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 7:49:40 PM UTC+1, Ista Zahn wrote: As an R user I'm surprised

Re: [julia-users] Re: Control system library for Julia?

2014-09-28 Thread Steven Sagaert
GC will always be non-deterministic. For hard real time you just need to manage memory yourself. That's the approach used by real time Java http://www.rtsj.org/ On Monday, September 15, 2014 10:25:07 AM UTC+2, Uwe Fechner wrote: Hi, I am working an airborne wind energy as well. I wrote a

Re: [julia-users] Are dataframes indexed?

2014-09-08 Thread Steven Sagaert
(which is the team that invented Hive) isn't likely to stop using Hive anytime soon. -- John On Sep 7, 2014, at 4:50 PM, Steven Sagaert steven@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Monday, September 8, 2014 1:37:50 AM UTC+2, John Myles White wrote: Well, you can write an interface to sqlite

[julia-users] Are dataframes indexed?

2014-09-07 Thread Steven Sagaert
Hi, I was wondering if searching in a dataframe is indexed (in the DB sense, not array sense. e.g. a tree index structure) or not? If so can you have multiple indices (on multiple columns) or not?

[julia-users] when you do push! on an array does it get copied each time or in chunks?

2014-09-07 Thread Steven Sagaert
When you start with an empty array and grow it one element at a time with push!, does the underlying array memory block get copied expanded by one or in larger chunks (like ArrayList in Java)?

Re: [julia-users] Are dataframes indexed?

2014-09-07 Thread Steven Sagaert
, 2014 1:32:28 AM UTC+2, Steven Sagaert wrote: On Sunday, September 7, 2014 7:28:18 PM UTC+2, Harlan Harris wrote: This was a feature that sorta existed for a while (see https://github.com/JuliaStats/DataFrames.jl/issues/24 ), but nobody was very happy with it, and I think John ripped it out

Re: [julia-users] Are dataframes indexed?

2014-09-07 Thread Steven Sagaert
of that in the future. Blaze's approach is very interesting. I agree. -- John On Sep 7, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Steven Sagaert steven@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Sunday, September 7, 2014 7:28:18 PM UTC+2, Harlan Harris wrote: This was a feature that sorta existed for a while (see

[julia-users] Re: Announcement: Playground.jl

2014-08-25 Thread Steven Sagaert
Nice! This will definitely be useful for playing with different versions. On Saturday, August 23, 2014 10:01:45 PM UTC+2, Rory Finnegan wrote: Hi everyone, I've published my Playground.jl https://github.com/Rory-Finnegan/Playground.jl package to create julia sandboxes like python virtual

[julia-users] Re: problem after upgrading to v0.3.0

2014-08-25 Thread Steven Sagaert
Hi Tobias, Thanks. I had lines like #= blabla and those were the problem. On Monday, August 25, 2014 4:21:43 PM UTC+2, Steven Sagaert wrote: when running a file non-interactively I get: julia VMRecommender.jl ERROR: syntax: incomplete: unterminated multi-line comment