[Matplotlib-users] Navigation Slowness in Matplotlib with Subplots

[John Gu <jo...@gm...>]

Hello,

I had submitted a similar issue back in October of 2011.  I'm using
matplotlib 1.3.1.  Here's the code to produce the issue:

f = figure()
for i in xrange(9): subplot(3,3,i+1)
f.axes[0].plot(range(100))

Now try to drag the line in the first subplot around.  It's extremely slow.
 Now do the following:

for ax in f.axes[1:]: ax.axison=False

Now, when you drag the line around in the first subplot, there's a huge
difference.  Basically, it seems like that matplotlib is attempting to
redraw a lot of unnecessary things on the figure.  Is there an easy fix to
this?

Thanks,
John