Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib/pylab memory usage

2008-06-03 Thread Michael Droettboom
I've never needed to ask this question, so I don't know the answer, but I would suspect pylab, in reality, adds very little overhead to matplotlib. But -- I would modify your test script to actually perform a plot using pylab vs. matplotlib API. Until you actually "do" something, you're just m

[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib/pylab memory usage

2008-06-03 Thread Larsen, Jesper
Hi matplotlib users and developers, I am trying to run a web application using matplotlib in a memory constrained environment. I have therefore tried to figure out what memory overhead matplotlib incurs. When I run the following method prior to and after importing pylab and matplotlib respectiv