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

[keflavich <kef...@gm...>]

Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Yes, I'm using savefig.  I switched to the 'Paint' backend so I can save as
.png and use Mac's preview to view the files as they're updated; that's my
cheap workaround for the moment.

I tried 'agg' and it performs essentially the same as 'Paint' - pretty fast. 
Maybe closer to 2-3s than 1s.

Adam
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