On 2012/09/09 8:50 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Jesper Larsen <jesper.webm...@gmail.com > <mailto:jesper.webm...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi Matplotlib users > > I have an application where performance is critical and matplotlib is > the performance bottleneck. I am making a lot of figures using the > same basic setup of the figure. And from my profiling I can see that > this basic setup accounts for most of the CPU time. Let us say that I > make a given figure including some axes. My questions are: > > 1. Can I make a copy of this figure including axes (copy.deepcopy does > not work on Figure objects) and use the copy for plotting on? > > 2. And how? Should I use the frozen method somehow? > > I did do something similar some years back. But at the time I removed > the stuff I had drawn on the figure. I would like to avoid this for > two reasons: 1) Thread safety, I must be able to draw figures in > several simultaneous threads and 2) I really had to go into some > low-level details in matplotlib (not a show-stopper, but for > maintenance reasons I would like to keep the code as clear as > possible). > > Best regards, > Jesper > > > Jesper, > > An experimental feature that will be available in the upcoming v1.2.0 > release will be pickling support. It is marked as experimental as there > are plenty of untested edge cases, but it should be a huge step in the > right direction for the feature that you and many others have asked > for. We certainly will welcome any and all feedback on what does and > does not pickle well. > > Cheers! > Ben Root
Some benchmarking would be useful as well. Pickling/unpickling can be very slow. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
