John Hunter wrote: > Hi Michiel, > > This looks great -- in particular I am intrigued by the final timing > results which show your backend 12 times faster than tkagg. I am not > sure where this speedup is coming from -- do you have some ideas? > Because you are creating lots-o-subplots in that example, there is a > lot of overhead at the python layer (many axes, many ticks, etc) so I > don't see how a faster backend could generate such a significant > improvement. What kind of timings do you see if you issue a plot > rather than bar call in that example? One thing about bar in > particular is that we draw lots of separate rectangles, each with thie > own gc, and it has been on my wishlist for some time to do this as a > collection. If you are handling gc creation, etc, in C, that may > account for a big part of the difference. > > Since the new macosx backend was released in 0.98.5, I also need to > decide whether this patch belongs on the branch, and hence will get > pushed out as early as today in a bugfix release when some changes JJ > and Michael are working on are ready, or the trunk, in which case it > could be months. In favor of the trunk: this is more of a feature > enhancement than a bugfix, and patches to the branch should be > bugfixes with an eye to stability of the released code, though a good > argument could be made that this is a bugfix. In favor of the branch: > it is brand new code advertised as beta in 0.98.5 and so it is > unlikely that anyone is using it seriously yet, and since it is beta, > we should get as much of it out there ASAP so folks can test and pound > on it. I'm in favor of branch, but I wanted to bring this up here > since we are fairly new to the branch/trunk release maintenance game > and want to get some input and provide some color about which patches > should go where, especially in gray areas like this.
I'm +1 on going ahead and putting this on the branch, for the reasons you mentioned. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
