On Monday, March 03, 2014 02:31:37 AM Andreas Lobinger wrote:
> Cairo based rendering gives you two things actually impossible in matlab:
> Antialiasing and Transparency (it's not used in Winston right now, but Tim
> somehow has an PR for Color.jl).

All the changes are already in, though I think you have to be running master 
on some or all of Color/Cairo/Winston.

> So we can have far more prettier plots but pay with speed...

Yes, I've been quite delighted by our new ability to export images containing 
transparency as _vector-graphics PDFs_. Hello Matlab? I've been waiting for 
that for about 10 years? Don't you read your email? :)

> I'm preparing some speed testing for Cairo.jl, watch out for the PR.

Definitely looking forward to that. Speed is the one thing I find distressing 
about Cairo. Certain operations are notably faster if you're running Gtk 
rather than Tk, but in my not-very-scientific tests this scatter-plot does not 
appear to be one of them.

--Tim

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