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 res

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 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 >>> inefficient

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

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 fr

[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