RE: [Matplotlib-users] large data sets and performance

[Perry G. <pe...@st...>]

Peter Groszkowski wrote:
> >
> Yes I am only planning to work offline. Want to be able to pipe the 
> output images to stdout. I am looking for the fastest solution possible.
> 
Following up on this, I was curious what exactly you meant by
this. A stream of byte values in ascii separated by spaces?
Or the actual binary bytes?  If the latter, it wouldn't appear
to be difficult to write a C extension to return the image
as a string, but I'm figuring there is more to it than that
since the representations for the image structure can change
from one backend to another.

Perry