Re: gnuplot slow on BIG files

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> Moreover, gnuplot is really memory inefficient IMHO. To read 36M numbers
> for example it needs:
>
> (36M * sizeof(float)) + (36M * 3 * sizeof(float))

I have started a similar discussion some time ago, when I've concluded that
gnuplot needs 132 B per each point in 3D (data read + drawing cache in
terminal for X11 or Windows) ... it was for "set pm3d; splot ...".

Having maps organized in a different fashion would be definitely nice, but
too much code relies on the current model.

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