Re: graphics-branch in CVS

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Dec-2006, Shai Ayal wrote:

| On 12/7/06, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| >   * It is slow.  Some of this can probably be fixed by translating the
| >     core code that deals with the list of graphics handles to C++.  It
| >     may also be necessary to convert the code that processes the plot
| >     data structure and interacts with gnuplot.
| 
| Also, keeping all the data in octave ans sending it to gnuplot each
| time could be very time consuming -- when plotting large datasets it
| would be very annoying. I think for the future plotting backend some
| sort of shared memory scheme should be implemented, although I have no
| idea how to do it.

Yes, I know that there are problems like this.  Please remember that I
prefaced the list of limitations by saying that I think of this code
as an intermediate solution to graphics problems in Octave.  I don't
expect that it will be the ultimate solution, but it is a step in that
direction.

jwe