Thanks Roger! I'll give this a try. -Mike
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Roger Herikstad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm enjoying the ease with which Winston allows me to create beautiful > plots. However, I often have the need to create scatter plots consisting of > ~1e5 points. This is currently too slow, and for those situations I resort > to Matlab using the excellent Matlab.jl > (https://github.com/lindahua/MATLAB.jl). I'm aware of a previous thread on > this list concerning plotting performance of a large number of lines, but I > believe scatter plots might be a different issue, since it would involve > drawing a separate path for each symbol in any case. I came across this > thread: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.cairo/18734 where a similar > problem was addressed. Could something like that be implemented in Winston > as well? > After a cursory look at the the Cairo source code, it seems that the > suggested solution relies on functions that are currently not wrapped by > Cairo.jl, such as push_group/pop_group. I was considering trying to hack > this out myself, but my knowledge of Cairo graphics is virtually > non-existent. Anyway, I just thought I'd raise the issue in case someone > would want to pursue it. > > ~ Roger
