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.
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]
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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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.
https://github.com/PDLPorters/pdl/blob/master/Changes
[0] https://docs.raku.org/language/nativecall [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/PDL::ParallelCPU