Re: [Matplotlib-users] Interactive backends very (suprisingly?) slow for multiple subplots

[Jouni K. S. <jk...@ik...>]

keflavich <kef...@gm...> writes:

> I tried the same series of plot commands using the SVG, PS, and PDF backends
> and the whole series of 50 plots takes <~1s.

Did you produce any output with savefig? 50 plots per second sounds
pretty fast - at least on my computer, the matplotlib examples render
much slower than that, so I suspect your test script might not have
really caused the backends to render anything. Anyway, if you want to
compare the execution time of the interactive backends, I suppose the
best reference would be the Agg backend, which does the same rendering
without any of the interactiveness.

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