Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
>
> keflavich <keflav...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I tried the same series of plot commands using the SVG, PS, and PDF
>> backends
>> and the whole series of 50 plots takes <~1s.
>
> Did you produce any output with savefig? 50 plots per second sounds
> pretty fast - at least on my computer, the matplotlib examples render
> much slower than that, so I suspect your test script might not have
> really caused the backends to render anything. Anyway, if you want to
> compare the execution time of the interactive backends, I suppose the
> best reference would be the Agg backend, which does the same rendering
> without any of the interactiveness.
>
Yes, I'm using savefig. I switched to the 'Paint' backend so I can save as
.png and use Mac's preview to view the files as they're updated; that's my
cheap workaround for the moment.
I tried 'agg' and it performs essentially the same as 'Paint' - pretty fast.
Maybe closer to 2-3s than 1s.
Adam
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