It is not clear to me that the stream of PNGs will win in the end. If you make a single static plot of a large data set, that is way better than trying to send the data to the browser and rendering it there. But if you have to send hundreds or thousands of PNGs to get interactivity, that benefit may be washed out. Especially if you have multiple users interacting with plots - the server could quickly grind to a halt. I think we should do tests to see how bad it gets, taking into account the multiple user question. The one performance benefit that I can think of is that you can tune the level of interactivity to limit the data that comes back. For large data sets, users might be willing to settle for less interactivity. That option doesn't exist when you send all the data back.
Cheers, Brian On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote: > I have a proof-of-concept way to make interactive plots in the browser work > using transparent PNGs described here: > > http://mdboom.github.com/blog/2012/10/11/matplotlib-in-the-browser-its-coming/ > > No PRs yet, because this is miles from ready for that, but it would be > helpful to get some feedback about how this works in different > browsers/platforms/network environments etc. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > IPython-dev mailing list > ipython-...@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/ipython-dev > -- Brian E. Granger Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo bgran...@calpoly.edu and elliso...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
