Re: interactive game demo for gnuplot

[Juhász P. <pet...@gm...>]

On Sun, 2013-08-25 at 16:51 -0700, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 August 2013, Juhász Péter wrote:

[snip]

> The only thing I find surprising or unexpected here is that
> qt is faster than both wxt and x11. 
> X11 with no pause is slightly faster than in earlier versions, 
> but I think that is likely due to Dima Kogan's speed optimizations.

About those, see the next attachment.

./metaball1.sh > foo; gnuplot foo

With earlier versions the animation is quite smooth. With the current
cvs it's glacial. So those optimizations may backfire in some cases.

Interestingly, the more obvious ./metaball1.sh | gnuplot - is uselessly
slow in all cases, because gnuplot echoes all commands to the terminal,
but even with redirecting the output to /dev/null it is slower than in
the file-reading case.

(about this demo: it's adapted from a demo a colleague of mine wrote for
his project called animator, http://repo.hu/projects/animator/ )

Peter