[Matplotlib-users] performance?

[Wayne C. <wa...@4r...>]

I have a general performance question - is matplotlib expected to deal well with 
  large plots when you are zoomed into a small region?  That is, if I have 100K 
points in a graph but have set my limits so that only 100 of them are visible at 
one time, should that be comparable to creating a plot with only the visible 
items and re-creating it each time the limits are moved?  (Assuming the X axis 
is monotonic and I do the obvious type of filtering in Python.)  It seems to be 
a bit sluggish...

Thanks,

	Wayne