Thanks! That kind of solves the issue. It isn't lighting fast, but I've come down to 12 seconds in order to paint 2000 bps, which is an impressive improvement over the previous 8+ minutes.
Anyway, I think that the developers should keep an eye on the 'select' command, it is quite slow for the overall speed of jmol Cheers, Carles El 10/01/2008, a las 14:34, Angel Herraez escribió: > The only thing I can imagine is that there is indeed some overload in > doing the selections. > Maybe Jmol has to go over all atoms (quite a lot of them in 500pb, > right?) checking for their name each time. > > If your atom numbers are correlative, as in your example > select C73, N74, C75, O76, N77, C78, O79, C80, C81, C82; color [0, > 72, 0]; > Try this: > select (atomno>=73 and atomno<=82); color [0, 72, 0]; > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users -- Carles Fenollosa Bielsa Barcelona Supercomputing Center / Life Sciences Nexus II / Jordi Girona, 29 / 08034 Barcelona +34 93 413 76 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users