Re: [Plplot-devel] xcairo is abnormally slow for example 17 on X-terminals

2010-03-06 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2010-01-31 16:50-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: Alan W. Irwin wrote: So the issue must be something special about the way xcairo implements the special interactive needs of example 17 that is done extremely

Re: [Plplot-devel] xcairo is abnormally slow for example 17 on X-terminals

2010-03-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-03-06 17:51-0500 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: Alan, I have attached a patch which may solve the problem for you I hope this speeds things up significantly for you! On my system, x17c is slightly faster with this patch and xcairo than it is with qtwidget. Hez Timing results

Re: [Plplot-devel] xcairo is abnormally slow for example 17 on X-terminals

2010-01-31 Thread Hazen Babcock
Alan W. Irwin wrote: Since moving from the fast computer to this X-terminal system I have noticed no difference in speed except for the -dev xcairo case for example 17. For that case, xcairo generates a ton of LAN traffic (which I track with the KDE4 system monitor) which essentially

Re: [Plplot-devel] xcairo is abnormally slow for example 17 on X-terminals

2010-01-31 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-01-31 16:50-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: Alan W. Irwin wrote: So the issue must be something special about the way xcairo implements the special interactive needs of example 17 that is done extremely inefficiently compared to all other interactive devices and also inefficiently

[Plplot-devel] xcairo is abnormally slow for example 17 on X-terminals

2010-01-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
My wife and I share a home office with two Linux computers. One of them is fast, and one slow. I have recently reorganized that office so I am using the slow computer in X-terminal mode. Instead of running something complicated like ltsp to turn that computer into an X-terminal, I instead run X