I've observed a significant difference in the time required by different plotting functions. With a plot of 5000 random data points (all positive, non-zero), plt.semilogx takes 3.5 times as long as plt.plot. (Data for the case of saving to PDF, ratio changes to about 3.1 for PNG on my machine.)
I used cProfile (script attached) and found several significant
differences between the profiles of each plotting command. On my first
analysis, it appears that most of the difference is due to increased use
of mathtext in semilogx:
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Plotting command
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cumtime (s) plot semilogx semilogy loglog
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total running time 0.618 2.192 0.953 1.362
axis.py:181(draw) 0.118 1.500 0.412 0.569
text.py:504(draw) 0.056 1.353 0.290 0.287
mathtext.py:2765(__init__) 0.000 1.018 0.104 0.103
mathtext.py:2772(parse) --- 1.294 0.143 0.254
pyparsing.py:1018(parseString) --- 0.215 0.216 0.221
pyparsing.py:3129(oneOf) --- 0.991 --- ---
pyparsing.py:3147(<lambda>) --- 0.358 --- ---
lines.py:918(_draw_solid) 0.243 0.358 0.234 0.352
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It seems that semilogx could be made as fast as semilogy since they have
to do the same amount of work, but I'm not sure where the differences
lie. Can anyone suggest where I should look first?
Much thanks,
Andrew Hawryluk
matplotlib.__version__ = '0.99.1'
Windows XP Professional
Version 2002, Service Pack 3
Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 GHz, 2.99 GHz, 0.99 GB of RAM
semilogPerformance.py
Description: semilogPerformance.py
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