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

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