| Re: PV Wave vs IDL [message #34541] |
Wed, 26 March 2003 12:07  |
David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001
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Walburger (acwalbur@newstand.syr.edu) writes:
> We use PV-wave (V6.1) for our data processing (mostly time-series data).
> I was wondering what the major differences are between PV-wave and IDL? It
> seems that most of the examples I've seen on this newsgroup can be
> reproduced with a little massaging in PV-Wave.
In a word, objects.
Dave Burridge and I are nearly ready to release our Catalyst
Object Library, which we think offers huge advantages with
respect to the ease and speed of building programs with
graphical user interfaces. You could massage PV-Wave for
a long, long time without coming up with something like this. :-)
Cheers,
David
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| Re: PV Wave vs IDL [message #34588 is a reply to message #34541] |
Tue, 01 April 2003 04:51  |
jm
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Maybe also speed. I switched from PV Wave to IDL a few years ago
after benchmarking a demo version of IDL: it was twice the speed of PV
Wave.
The jobs were both compute and I/O intensive, though i'd guess the
advantage was largely due to faster computations than I/O.
-John Mardaljevic
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