>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Daniel> It seems that resetting the axes limits every time data
Daniel> needs to be redisplayed is rather inefficient. A script
Daniel> is included with this mail that tests the efficiency of
Daniel> resizing the y axis. The script has two loops, in the
Daniel> first loop pylab.ylim() is continuously called with the
Daniel> changing size of the domain, in the second loop
Daniel> pylab.ylim() is not called inside the loop. The first loop
Daniel> takes roughly twice as long to perform. Is this an
Daniel> unavoidable cost for resizing the y axis or is there
Daniel> another way to resize the axis that is less costly than
Daniel> using ylim()?
The cost from the tick layout and formatting -- this could be made
more efficient but that is where the cost is currently. For every
tick label, matplotlib does a layout assuming you may have passed a
rotated multiline string. Special casing the no newline, non-rotated
case is probably where the biggest win would come from. It is
a good project for someone to tackle, but the text layout code is kind
of hairy because it deals with so many cases: mathtext, usetex,
rotated strings, multiline strings, top/bottom left/right alignment,
and so on.
A complete refactoring of ticks to treat them as a single
collection-like object rather than a bunch of independent objects
would also help a lot here.
JDH
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