Hi,
Please do not underestimate the usefulness of this feature of Matlab. I am
working on my PhD which is a long term project and requires many figures in the
final dissertation. It very convenient in Matlab to be able to make small
adjustment to plots you generated a year ago by simply opening
> It sounds like you have interactive mode on, in which case each pylab
> function redraws the figure.
Yes - it was that simple (and stupid); thanks for your patience. Turning off
interactive mode and using the set_data approach leads to an execution time
of about 0.05 seconds (~30-fold speed-u