Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib is slow

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Droettboom
I think using the profiler is the best bet here. We've used that in the past to track down things that take a long time to import quite successfully. I'm not seeing any slowness here, so that is likely do to an environmental difference on your machine, implying you'll really need to run the p

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib is slow

2012-12-31 Thread C M
Resurrecting an old thread here On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:23 PM, David Kremer wrote: > > I would recommend running the import in the Python profiler to determine > > where most of the time is going. When I investigated this a few years > > back, it was mainly due to loading the GUI toolkits

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib is slow

2011-03-28 Thread Michael Droettboom
I would recommend running the import in the Python profiler to determine where most of the time is going. When I investigated this a few years back, it was mainly due to loading the GUI toolkits, which are understandably quite large. You can avoid most of that by using the Agg backend. If you're