Re: plot very slow in 2.9.12

[David Bateman]

Philipp Zehnder wrote:
> --- David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>   
>> Philipp Zehnder wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I just tried 2.9.12 recently (after using 2.1.57
>>>       
>> for a
>>     
>>> long time) and experienced that the plot function
>>>       
>> is
>>     
>>> _very_ slow, i.e. even the simplest plot takes
>>>       
>> about
>>     
>>> 5s(!) to finish. What could be wrong here? I know
>>>       
>> that
>>     
>>> a lot has changed for plots, but still I can't
>>>       
>> believe
>>     
>>> that
>>> this is 'normal'.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Philipp 
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> With an example of the code that demonstrates the
>> "problem" it is
>> difficult to say anything at all..
>>
>> D.
>>     
>
> Well, there's not much to say about the "problem" but
> if you really need one take e.g.:
>
> x=[0:pi/10:2*pi]; plot(x,sin(x));
>
> I think this is reasonably simple. ;) I have a 3.0 GHz
> P4 with Debian Sarge and gnuplot 4.0. Don't know if
> that information helps. I just wanted to know if there
> are any known problems with plot and some
> configurations in general. I didn't find much about
> this on the web. The only thing I found is a hint
> about changing the gnuplot terminal, but that applied
> to the Windows version. 
>   
I just tried this example and the plot was shown almost instantly with
2.9.12, linux, gnuplot 4.0 system. I see no reason for this example to
be slow. In fact I suspect 2.9.12 should be faster as it makes extensive
use of pipes to talk to gnuplot rather than temporary files..

D.

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