Re: [Matplotlib-users] Response times of GTK vs GTKAgg backends

2006-09-07 Thread Kevin Horton
On 7-Sep-06, at 12:05 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: > Kevin Horton wrote: > >> I also want to note that the GTK >> backend is useful to some people, and hope that it will continue to >> be supported (I seem to recall one mention that it was little used). > > This is a good point. In general, the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Response times of GTK vs GTKAgg backends

2006-09-07 Thread Christopher Barker
Kevin Horton wrote: > I'm not sure where the bottleneck lies I don't know any details of either of the GTK back-ends, but this sounds like what I'd expect. With the *Agg backends, the rendering is done by Agg, generating an image in memory, and then the entire image is passed (one way or another

[Matplotlib-users] Response times of GTK vs GTKAgg backends

2006-09-06 Thread Kevin Horton
I'm developing an application for personal use on my Mac, using the GTAgg backend, which renders a series of plots in a figure in a pygtk scrolled window. I'm currently using matplotlib 0.87.3 installed via Fink. Matplotlib is performing well. Today I had occasion to log into my Mac over s