Sebastian Haase wrote:
BTW, from the profiling/timing I did you can tell that wxPyPlot actually plots 25000 data points in 0.1 secs - so it's _really_ fast ...
Actually, it's probably not that fast, if you are timing on Linux/wxGTK/X-Windows. X is asyncronous, so what you are timing is how long it takes your program to tell X what to draw, but it may take longer than that to actually draw it. However, what you are timing is all the stuff that is effected by numarray/Numeric. I worked on part of the wxPython DC.DrawXXXList stuff, and I really wanted a Numeric native version, but Robin really didn't want an additional dependency. We discussed on this list a while back whether you could compile against Numeric, but let people run without it, and have it all work unless Someone actually used it. What makes that tricky is that the functions that test whether a PyObject is a Numeric array are in Numeric... but it could probably be done if you tried hard enough (maybe include just that function in wxPython...) The Same applies for numarray support. Anyway, as it stands, wxPython DC methods are faster with Lists or Tuples of values than Numeric or Numarray arrays. You might try converting to a list with numarray.tolist() before making the DC call. Another option is to write a few specialized DC functions that take numarray arrays to draw, but are not included in wxPython. I think you'd get it as fast as possible that way. I intend to do that some day. If you want to get it started, I'll help. You could probably get a particularly nice improvement in drawing a lot of rectangles, as looping through a N X 4 array of coords directly would be much, much faster that using the Sequence API on the whole thing, and on each item, and checking at every step what kind of object everything is. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer NOAA/OR&R/HAZMAT (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov