Re: [PATCH] x11 terminal respects the requested aspect ratio

[sfeam (E. Merritt) <eam...@gm...>]

On Saturday, 20 October 2012, Dima Kogan wrote:
> The optimization you're describing is more powerful. 
> Do you think there will be a noticeable difference
> between the two approaches with real-world data?

It is very hard to predict what data someone might
someday want to plot.  Here is a simple script that
generates highly redundant commands by drawing a
series of vectors touching head-to-tail.  
Suppression of the intervening M commands would reduce
the size of the output stream by 50%.

Plotting head-to-tail vectors sounds like a perfectly
reasonable thing to do, however rare it might be
compared to other types of plot.

	Ethan

lastx=0
lasty=0.5
set samples 1000

set term xlib
set output 'heads.x11'

plot '+' using (lastx):(lasty):(lastx = lastx+1, 1):\
         (dely=rand(0)-0.5,lasty=lasty+dely, dely)  \
         with vector nohead