On Tuesday 01 August 2006 08:52, John Hunter wrote: > >>>>> "Jouni" == Jouni K Seppanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jouni> The draw_lines method in the PS backend divides the line > Jouni> into subsequences of at most 50 points, and calls the > Jouni> "stroke" operator for each subsequence, which in effect > Jouni> resets the dash offset. Thus if 50 consecutive points fit > Jouni> within a dash, the line appears solid. > > 50 seems awfully small to me. There are maximum length path > limitations of some postscript interpreters which is why we batch > these up. Darren, could we get away with a step of 1000 here rather > than 50?
Here are GGV's render times for a line containing 1e6 points: division | time (s) 50 3 1000 9 100000 8 none 28 I bumped it up to 100,000 in svn 2644, which seems to have improved the dash problem. Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
