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I built and maintained the python stack at a financial firm that had a sizeable investment in perl and PDL, and iirc PDL was unreliable (crashy, not sure about

I built and maintained the python stack at a financial firm that had a sizeable investment in perl and PDL, and iirc PDL was unreliable (crashy, not sure about other aspects of reliability) and I don't recall that it was making the transition to 64 bit in the mid/late 2000s at the speed numpy was. Do you remember any more detail from the perl side of the fence?

thraxil 5y ago
Not really. I vaguely remember trying out PDL and not getting very far. I was pretty comfortable writing C back then, so any time I'd run into performance issues in Perl, I'd usually just switch to C. Getting PDL working properly was painful enough that it didn't really seem worth spending a lot of time on when I could just write a small C program, especially for commandline data pipeline type situations. Once I started hitting projects with requirements for interactive GUIs though, keeping everything in the same language becomes more valuable and Python had the better complete package.