Perl Data Language Advent Calendar (opens in new tab)

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2 pointsEnk1du1y ago6 comments

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What could be described as Numpy for Perl, PDL was released in 1996 and is now seeing a resurgence of interest. The Advent Calendar showcases some of its features in a festive mood.

smartmic1y ago

> PDL was released in 1996 and is now seeing a resurgence of interest

Where do you see that happening? I would like to see such thing, but my own experience and the general feeling is that this is not within reach.

Enk1duOP1y ago

For me, it's the acceleration of development in the last 5 years as seen in the Changes file. It's now releasing new versions almost every month.

https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl/blob/master/Changes

Qem1y ago

Is it ported to Raku already?

Enk1duOP1y ago

Nothing stopping anyone from using Inline::Perl or NativeCall [0]. I'd like to see Raku's concurrency model working on these data structures. Otherwise there's always PDL::ParallelCPU [1]

[0] https://docs.raku.org/language/nativecall [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::ParallelCPU

anthk1y ago

For these kind of cases, guix looks like the best platform to set PDL under either an ad-hoc environment or a container, and much lighter and secure than Docker itself.

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6 comments

Enk1duOP1y ago

What could be described as Numpy for Perl, PDL was released in 1996 and is now seeing a resurgence of interest. The Advent Calendar showcases some of its features in a festive mood.

smartmic1y ago

> PDL was released in 1996 and is now seeing a resurgence of interest

Where do you see that happening? I would like to see such thing, but my own experience and the general feeling is that this is not within reach.

Enk1duOP1y ago

For me, it's the acceleration of development in the last 5 years as seen in the Changes file. It's now releasing new versions almost every month.

https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl/blob/master/Changes

Qem1y ago

Is it ported to Raku already?

Enk1duOP1y ago

Nothing stopping anyone from using Inline::Perl or NativeCall [0]. I'd like to see Raku's concurrency model working on these data structures. Otherwise there's always PDL::ParallelCPU [1]

[0] https://docs.raku.org/language/nativecall [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::ParallelCPU

anthk1y ago

For these kind of cases, guix looks like the best platform to set PDL under either an ad-hoc environment or a container, and much lighter and secure than Docker itself.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse