Re: [matplotlib-devel] Native backend for Mac OS X

[Michiel de H. <mjl...@ya...>]

--- On Tue, 10/28/08, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> I haven't had a chance to look at the code yet, but I
> suspect he
> hasn't implemented the path collection draw method. If
> it's not
> implemented, we fall back on drawing each path separately,
> which is a
> lot slower.  scatter ultimately triggers a call to
> Renderer.draw_path_collection which has a default
> implementation and a
> specialization in backend_agg.
> 
Good point. Indeed I was not aware of the draw_path_collection method and I have not implemented it. I will implement this method and report back with the timings for Eric's example.

Thanks!

--Michiel.