If you check out the dev branch of Plots, you can do 'plot(y,
t=:scattergl)' and it should use the WebGL method in Plotly.  Try it out if
you want... (and report back if you find anything interesting)

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Jonathan Malmaud <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does the Plots.jl wrapper over PlotlyJS support the OpenGL-based scatter
> plotting?
>
> On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 8:08:42 AM UTC-4, Tom Breloff wrote:
>>
>> I recommend testing your stuff with Plots... The overhead should be
>> constant among backends, so you can use the same code to benchmark PyPlot,
>> GR and Plotly/PlotlyJS. See the "backends" page of the Plots docs for more
>> info. I recommend checking out master as there's been some good
>> fixes/improvements since my last tag (I'll try to tag again today)
>>
>> Also I'm hoping that there can be some hacking on the GLVisualize backend
>> during JuliaCon!
>>
>> On Monday, June 13, 2016, Mauro <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I also found that GR is a lot faster than PyPlot, so give that a try.
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 09:57, Andreas Lobinger <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hello colleague,
>>> >
>>> > On Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 10:31:06 PM UTC+2, CrocoDuck O'Ducks wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi there!
>>> >>
>>> >> I have been experimenting a little with many plotting packages
>>> recently.
>>> >> Being used to Matlab PyPlot seemed to work well for me... until this
>>> bug
>>> >> <https://github.com/stevengj/PyPlot.jl/issues/209> I did not figure
>>> out
>>> >> how to workaround. I often need to plot a lot of data. The fact is
>>> that I
>>> >> often work with sampled data, like audio. For example, I could have
>>> to plot
>>> >> 10 seconds of 192 kHz sampled audio. Even when PyPlot was working it
>>> was
>>> >> hard to plot so many data: PyPlot was used to give up after few
>>> errors. I
>>> >> tried also other packages (Gadfly and few others) but seems like they
>>> >> really struggle to plot so much stuff: they often kinda freeze. I am
>>> not
>>> >> sure wether I am missing something or using the packages improperly
>>> or the
>>> >> packages are somewhat limited at this stage. I have resorted to
>>> export the
>>> >> data to .mat files and plot with matlab...
>>> >>
>>> >> My question is:  how do you guys plot large data sets? Do you suggest
>>> a
>>> >> plot package in particular?
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > I use some home-grown solutions and (still) Winston. I just tested
>>> Plots.jl
>>> > with GR backend and could plot 5e6 random lines. Maybe you look into
>>> this.
>>> >
>>> > Wishing a happy day,
>>> >          Andreas
>>>
>>

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