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Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux is coming to all Windows 10 users (archive):
You won't have to be a tester to try Windows 10's new, built-in Linux kernel in the near future. Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 will be widely available when Windows 10 version 2004 arrives. You'll have to install it manually for a "few months" until an update adds automatic installs and updates, but that's a small price to pay if you want Linux and Windows to coexist in peace and harmony. It'll be easier to set up, at least -- the kernel will now be delivered through Windows Update instead of forcing you to install an entire Windows image.
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Previously: Windows 10 Will Soon Ship with a Full, Open Source, GPLed Linux Kernel
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday March 17 2020, @12:45AM (1 child)
Did you try having Pillow, NumPy, or another image or signal processing library do the inner loops?
Or was the nature of the problem such that it would require so many calls in and out of the library that the overhead of marshaling arguments between the Python and C environments would dominate runtime? Because I ran into a Python-to-C call rate bottleneck a few years ago when I was trying to get Pillow and PyPy to work together. I wanted to take the sum of each 16x16-pixel area in a difference image, and in Pillow, that requires making a cropped copy of each 16x16-pixel image. In PyPy, calls to extensions that use the traditional Python C extension API [blogspot.com] or ctypes are slow, whereas calls to extensions that use CFFI [readthedocs.io] (the Python port of LuaJIT FFI) are fast. Guess what Pillow wasn't using.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday March 17 2020, @02:39AM
The real trick is learning time. I have a half-dozen rather straightforward problem statements to implement, and they're all obvious (to me) how to implement in Qt/C++, but constitute a pretty steep learning curve for me in Pillow/NumPy/OpenCV/what-have-you. Convert RGB to HSV or HSL, run statistics on the color channel values at each pixel location (things like mean, median, mode), make a transform which maps one set of images to have an identical color channel histograms as another set of images at each pixel location, copy-paste arbitrary ellipses from one image into another with alpha-blend margins, etc. etc. When the library has a function pre-built (like RGB to HSL transform) then, brilliant, say the magic words and it just happens.
My greatest frustration is when a library doesn't do something, because then the documentation tends to be silent on that point (hard to confirm a negative....), and when a library/language can't be made to do something in a practical manner, the documentation tends to be doubly silent on that point.
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