On 2010-03-06 17:51-0500 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > Alan, > > I have attached a patch which may solve the problem for you....
> I hope this speeds things up significantly for you! On my system, > x17c is slightly faster with this patch and xcairo than it is with > qtwidget. > > Hez > Timing results before patch: X-terminal: softw...@raven> time examples/c/x17c -dev xcairo real 6m3.730s user 0m1.476s sys 0m3.036s Direct: softw...@raven> time examples/c/x17c -dev xcairo real 1m51.653s user 0m1.424s sys 0m3.404s The user and sys times between the two are roughly similar, but the real times are not because this example on the X-terminal absolutely locks up the 100Mbit/sec LAN causing factor of ~three delays over the direct result. Timing results after patch: X-terminal: softw...@raven> time examples/c/x17c -dev xcairo real 0m14.140s user 0m1.272s sys 0m0.148s Direct: softw...@raven> time examples/c/x17c -dev xcairo real 0m13.154s user 0m1.320s sys 0m0.132s Hmm. Let me see now.... I guess I could live with a factor of 26 interactive speed increase on the X-terminal and a factor of ~8.5 interactive speed increase for the Direct system. :-) You are obviously on the right interactive speed track. Thanks! Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
