On Thursday 12 July 2007 5:57:27 pm Eric Firing wrote: > Carl Worth wrote: > [...] > > > But yeah, I also understand that there are licensing concerns. > > Anything else? Are there cairo performance concerns? If so, I'd love > > to hear about them so we can fix them. > > Backend cairo.ps took 0.87 minutes to complete > Backend ps took 0.66 minutes to complete > > So the mpl Cairo ps output is also relatively slow. I don't know > whether this is inherent in Cairo, or whether it could be optimized away > in the mpl Cairo backend. And, it may be caused by a few outliers > among the examples; I have not tried to compare times for individual plots.
Probably mpl's cairo backend can be optimized. The PS backend is heavily optimized, making use of the newer API to draw lines and markers (RendererPS.draw_lines and draw_markers). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
