Re: [Plplot-devel] Significant improvement in our overall -dev wxwidgets speed on Linux

2016-12-24 Thread p.d.rosenberg
Hi Alan It's great that these improvements have borne fruit. Regarding the two slower examples, I don't think it is cut and dry that it is the semaphores are the cause. It may be that for these cases where there are a large number of elements the ring buffer is filling up so the main application

[Plplot-devel] Significant improvement in our overall -dev wxwidgets speed on Linux

2016-12-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I was not particularly happy with the speed of our new wxwidgets device driver as of the release of 5.11.1 on the Linux platform because it was often significantly (factor of two to a factor of 20) slower than any of our other interactive devices, and sometimes (especially during tests) it would sl