Re: gnuplot-beta Digest, Vol 12, Issue 10

[m s. <mw...@us...>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ethan Merritt" <merritt@u.washington.edu>
> To: gnu...@li...
> Subject: Re: gnuplot-beta Digest, Vol 12, Issue 10
> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:01:09 -0700
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> On Monday 04 June 2007 13:14, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:48, m sutton wrote:
> > > I would like a couple of my patches to be considered for=20
> > inclusion into CVS:
> > > >  1659135  	  dashed grid for GD term to accept linewidths
> >
> > OK, that's better than the earlier version.
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> On closer inspection, I'm not entirely happy.
> This line:
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>          static int png_linetype_dotted[MAXLINEWIDTH*MAXLINEWIDTH*5];
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> ties up 0.2 MByte permanently, on the off-chance that we want
> to change the grid width.  Yeah I know, virtual memory is cheap these day=
s.
> But it's ugly.  Doesn't 200,000,000 bytes of storage to specify
> a 2+3 dot pattern seem a little outrageous?
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I originally selected static to avoid alloc/free overhead.  Feel free to ch=
ange to dynamic allocation.

Regards,

Mike Sutton


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