On Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 12:25:06 PM UTC-6, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > > > It might be better to do the plot() instead as that returns a graphics > object, and I believe is > > faster (but I have no quantitative evidence of this). > > I don't think so. There is no real canvas where show() could draw in test > mode, so the time should be exactly the same as plot(). And then, is even > plot() usefull as an example? > > I don't think plot, unlike show, actually goes through and does the rendering of the image and discards the result. However, I could be wrong about this. However, the output of the plot should be something that says how many graphics objects, which generally should not change. So I feel this is a better test because it is likely to catch changes to the image that should not necessarily happen.
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