Re: [sage-devel] Severe plotting slowdown since sage-4.8

2012-04-17 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 at 11:32AM +0200, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > Now that we're (hopefully) nearing the sage-5.0 release, I am doing > some timings again. We don't yet have proper automatic timing testing, > but with some simple scripting I discovered that plotting has severely > slowed down. I haven'

Re: [sage-devel] Severe plotting slowdown since sage-4.8

2012-04-17 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
This is now http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12854 -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-de

Re: [sage-devel] Severe plotting slowdown since sage-4.8

2012-04-17 Thread P Purkayastha
On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:52:42 PM UTC+8, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > An easy way to test this using timeit() (best out of 20 runs): > > sage: > > timeit('''plot(sin(x),(x,0,2*pi),ticks=pi/3,tick_formatter=pi).save("/tmp/1.png")''', > number=1, repeat=20) > Maybe the slowdown is not in matplotl

Re: [sage-devel] Severe plotting slowdown since sage-4.8

2012-04-17 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
An easy way to test this using timeit() (best out of 20 runs): sage: timeit('''plot(sin(x),(x,0,2*pi),ticks=pi/3,tick_formatter=pi).save("/tmp/1.png")''', number=1, repeat=20) -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

[sage-devel] Severe plotting slowdown since sage-4.8

2012-04-17 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
Now that we're (hopefully) nearing the sage-5.0 release, I am doing some timings again. We don't yet have proper automatic timing testing, but with some simple scripting I discovered that plotting has severely slowed down. I haven't figured out precisely why. For example the following command (i