Re: [matplotlib-devel] Thin Axes class

2014-07-09 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On 07/08/2014 11:33 AM, Bartosz wrote: Hi, When improving the performance of plotting high-dimensional data using faceted scatter plots, I noticed that much of time was spent on the axis creation (even 50%!). On my machine creating 20x20 array of subplots without actually plotting anything

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Thin Axes class

2014-07-09 Thread Benjamin Root
I wonder if the tick marks could take advantage of advantages of Line2DCollection (if it hasn't already), or maybe go so far as to have them be PatchCollections? We could maintain full feature set and such, but take advantage of some of the optimized rendering pathways in the backends that were

[matplotlib-devel] Thin Axes class

2014-07-08 Thread Bartosz
Hi, When improving the performance of plotting high-dimensional data using faceted scatter plots, I noticed that much of time was spent on the axis creation (even 50%!). On my machine creating 20x20 array of subplots without actually plotting anything takes about 11 seconds (for comparison