Re: Perl2ROOT

Hi Subir,

 that sounds like a nice approach. The pure Perl afficionado's might not be so happy that there language is interfaced via Python :-) What is the performance? I hope that the inline::python does not interpret the code too but is just a simple pass through.

Cheers, Fons.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 05:18:57PM +0200, Subir sarkar wrote:
> Dear ROOT users,
>
> I've created a Perl binding to ROOT which uses the highly efficient PyROOT
> binding instead of creating a native interface. This is not a SWIG based
> approach which we already know about. The present binding uses a Perl
> module, Inline::Python which binds any Python code from Perl seemlessly.
> Since PyROOT is officially a part of ROOT and will always be in
> synchronisation with the ROOT development, the present Perl binding, once
> conceptually complete, should not hoefully require any substantial
> maintenance effort.
>
> The interface is a just a beginning and I'll have to learn more about both
> PyROOT as well as Inline::Python. However, I've already managed to run the
> ROOT benchmark and convert a large number of ROOT tutorial examples.
>
> Please look at http://sarkar.home.cern.ch/sarkar/PerlRoot/ for detail.
> I've so far managed to put together only minimal documentation.
>
> Regards,
> - Subir
>
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