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

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:24 PM, keflavich <kef...@gm...> wrote:

>
> Hi, I'm trying to plot a series of ~30-50 small plots, each of which
> contains
> 3 plots of ~10-20 points (one plot is data, one plot is errorbars, one plot
> is a model fit).  I've tried using GtkAgg and Qt4Agg as backends, and both
> are extremely slow - they take ~5-10 seconds for the first plot window and
> then hang.   Sometimes they'll plot subsequent windows, but sometimes they
> will not.



That does sound exceedingly slow -- it looks like you are having some
problems with the GUI or environment and not just the mpl component.  How
are you running and profiling your script?  Can you post some free-standing
example code which exposes the problem?  Can you provide some of the
environment data detailed at
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/troubleshooting_faq.html#reporting-problems