Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-02-03 Thread David MacMahon
On Feb 1, 2010, at 12:53 , David MacMahon wrote: > I think I have accomplished the changes described in the thread > quoted below. I still have some testing to do, but I'd appreciate > any comments on my approach. Preliminary testing shows negligible > (i.e. undetectable) effect on performance.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-02-01 Thread David MacMahon
I think I have accomplished the changes described in the thread quoted below. I still have some testing to do, but I'd appreciate any comments on my approach. Preliminary testing shows negligible (i.e. undetectable) effect on performance. Here is a summary of what I did (a patch is avail

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-07 Thread David MacMahon
On Jan 6, 2010, at 23:14 , Maurice LeBrun wrote: > My only suggestion is to not worry about the performance issues in > function > evaluation.. after all you've got a system call somewhere down the > line to > actually draw something. In my experience that's usually where the > worst (and

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-07 Thread David MacMahon
On Jan 6, 2010, at 23:51 , Arjen Markus wrote: > David, you should probably use these two as a starting point for your > work. Thanks, Arjen, I agree. Dave -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Co

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi David, Alan, On 2010-01-07 07:43, David MacMahon wrote: > > I'm willing to try my hand at adapting some other functions to use > this technique. As far as I can tell, the list of functions that > could benefit from this are... > > c_plgriddata (*) > c_plmesh (**) > c_plmeshc (**) > c_pl

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 22:43:44 (-0800) David MacMahon writes: > On Jan 6, 2010, at 17:14 , Maurice LeBrun wrote: > > > Some centuries ago I did endow the contourer with the function > > evaluator > > technique to deal with the issue of C vs Fortran vs whatever array > > storag

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread David MacMahon
On Jan 6, 2010, at 17:14 , Maurice LeBrun wrote: > Some centuries ago I did endow the contourer with the function > evaluator > technique to deal with the issue of C vs Fortran vs whatever array > storage. > Worked out nicely IMO. Would've liked to upgrade all array- > handling functions > i

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 17:00:40 (-0800) David MacMahon writes: > Hi, Alan, > > On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:03 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > > If we have a mixture of C and Fortran ordering for the two-dimensional > > arrays in our API, we should decide which convention we should use > >

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Alan, On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:03 , Alan W. Irwin wrote: > If we have a mixture of C and Fortran ordering for the two-dimensional > arrays in our API, we should decide which convention we should use > in our > API and convert to it if/when we decide to do other major API > breakage we > have

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread Arjen Markus
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:03:42 -0800 (PST) "Alan W. Irwin" wrote: > > Arjen, from the fortran wrappers do we use the C order >for all our > two-dimensional arrays or just for the plsurf3d related >functions? > > If we have a mixture of C and Fortran ordering for the >two-dimensional > arrays i

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-01-06 09:31+0100 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi David, > > while I suffer from the same type of dyslexia (even after all these > years I still have trouble getting the indices right and frequently > have to sketch what the layout of the data is and what it should be, > using Fortran, C and a cou

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Arjen, On Jan 6, 2010, at 0:31 , Arjen Markus wrote: > while I suffer from the same type of dyslexia (even after all these > years I still have trouble getting the indices right and frequently > have to sketch what the layout of the data is and what it should be, > using Fortran, C and a coup

Re: [Plplot-devel] Another feature request (maybe)

2010-01-06 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi David, while I suffer from the same type of dyslexia (even after all these years I still have trouble getting the indices right and frequently have to sketch what the layout of the data is and what it should be, using Fortran, C and a couple of other languages), I must point out that plsurf3d u