On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Andrew Hawryluk hawr...@novachem.comwrote:
I've observed a significant difference in the time required by different
plotting functions. With a plot of 5000 random data points (all
positive, non-zero), plt.semilogx takes 3.5 times as long as plt.plot.
(Data for
This is indeed a very interesting result and I am able to reproduce
similar ratios for total running time.
However, I think the semilogx result is somewhat of a red herring. If
you change the order of the tests in your script, you'll notice that the
first *log* plot always takes the longest
I've observed a significant difference in the time required by different
plotting functions. With a plot of 5000 random data points (all
positive, non-zero), plt.semilogx takes 3.5 times as long as plt.plot.
(Data for the case of saving to PDF, ratio changes to about 3.1 for PNG
on my machine.)
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