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[Gnuplot-info] question: is there a memory limit?

[M L <m6...@ho...>]

hello,I am wondering if there is a memory limit using gnuplot to plot a lar=
ge number of data (2D time series with a few million points)?thanks in adva=
ncemike
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Re: [Gnuplot-info] question: is there a memory limit?

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M L wrote:
> I am wondering if there is a memory limit using gnuplot to plot a large 
> number of data (2D time series with a few million points)?

No.  As the saying goes, the sky's the limit.  That said, the practical 
limit is that a plot of such a time series will be quite completely 
unreadable, regardless of whether gnuplot can make one or not.  Consider 
that your entire computer screen only corresponds to a few Megabyte of 
data --- how is that going to manage to hold the information from a few 
million floating-point numbers and still leave you with something you 
can visually decode?