Re: gnuplot slow on BIG files

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 13 June 2005 01:14 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Ethan Merritt wrote:
> 
> Actually, it's *exactly* the OS bugs we have to code around.  All other 
> bugs can reasonably be avoided by asking people to upgrade some tool, 
> library or whatnot, or maybe by replacing buggy OS-supplied tools by 
> free replacements. 

There you have just described exactly the situation for OSK.
There was apparently a buggy, proprietary clib that gnuplot was
coded to work around. Since 1994, OSK has had the option of using
gcc/glibc intead.  So why should we continue to carry around a
work-around hack for a library that hasn't been needed since 1994?

> But neither we nor the typical user is in a position  
> to upgrade an OS just to be able to run gnuplot on it.

Several of the odd-ball machines I have in the lab were purchased
solely in order to support the software requirments of a particular
application or set of applications.  The world has changed; application
program requirements drive both hardware and OS purchasing decisions.

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