Pour yourself a nice cup of tea and start reading here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/4pT81kO1jDE/dRvWbqYhJH8J https://github.com/nolta/Winston.jl/issues/89
--Tim On Sunday, May 18, 2014 07:02:10 AM Andreas Lobinger wrote: > Hello colleague, > > just as i read it > > On Saturday, May 17, 2014 10:23:49 PM UTC+2, Tim Holy wrote: > > Also, really fast 2d plotting of large datasets would not be a bad thing. > > Cairo + Gtk is not bad (and Gtk is quite a lot better than Tk in terms of > > speed), but it's also not all that impressive either. > > Could you quantify? afaics my times for (from Cairo/test/shape_functions) > lines1-4 on a 1024x1024 bitmap are roughly > > julia> @time(lines1(c,1024.0,1024.0,1.0,100000)) > elapsed time: 36.95827684 seconds (4000368 bytes allocated) > > julia> @time(lines2(c,1024.0,1024.0,1.0,100000)) > elapsed time: 3.365150476 seconds (4126836 bytes allocated) > > julia> @time(lines3(c,1024.0,1024.0,1.0,100000)) > elapsed time: 1.091252869 seconds (4000368 bytes allocated) > > julia> @time(lines4(c,1024.0,1024.0,1.0,100000)) > elapsed time: 5.748033081 seconds (4185816 bytes allocated) > > and drawing 100000 lines antialiased in around 1s is not so bad. > > And i do not see a good reason, why Winston e.g should be slower.
