Hi,
The long story is that I'm looking for a good/fast graph plotting programs; so
I found WxPyPlot (http://www.cyberus.ca/~g_will/wxPython/wxpyplot.html)
It uses wxPython and plots 25000 data points (with lines + square markers) in
under one second - using Numeric that is.
[the slow line in WxPyPlot is:
dc.DrawLines(self.scaled)
where self.scaled is an array of shape (25000,2) and type Float64
]
The short story is that numarray takes maybe 10 times as long as Numeric
and I tracked the problem down into the wxPython SWIG typemap where he does
this:
wxPoint* wxPoint_LIST_helper(PyObject* source, int *count)
{ <snip>
bool isFast = PyList_Check(source) || PyTuple_Check(source);
<snip>
for (x=0; x<*count; x++) {
// Get an item: try fast way first.
if (isFast) {
o = PySequence_Fast_GET_ITEM(source, x);
}
else {
o = PySequence_GetItem(source, x);
if (o == NULL) {
goto error1;
}
}
</code-sniplet>
I'm not 100% sure that this is where the problem lies - is there a chance (or
a known issue) that numarray does PySequence_GetItem() slower than
Numeric ?
I just ran this again using the python profiler and
I get this w/ numarray:
ncalls tottime percall cumtime percall filename:lineno(function)
1 1.140 1.140 1.320 1.320 gdi.py:554(DrawLines)
1 1.250 1.250 1.520 1.520 gdi.py:792(_DrawRectangleList)
50230 0.450 0.000 0.450 0.000 numarraycore.py:501(__del__)
and this with Numeric:
1 0.080 0.080 0.080 0.080 gdi.py:554(DrawLines)
1 0.090 0.090 0.090 0.090 gdi.py:792(_DrawRectangleList)
Thanks,
Sebastian Haase
