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Every six months or so I do a project that requires drawing graphs
from Python code. I usually use pygdchart
because it's easy and I know it but it's awfully primitive and ugly.
I've admired the output of matplotlib so I thought
I'd give it a try.
The 2d rendering is slow. I wrote a quicky program to generate a trivial graph with 4 points then render that plot to an image 10 times in a row. Depending on the backend it can take almost a second to render a graph! Here's the milliseconds it takes to render a single plot using each of the various matplotlib backends: GD: 440 Agg: 650 Cairo: 850 SVG: 60 PS: 90 There's also the no-op backend Template, 50ms. That's as fast as matplotlib is ever going to be. I'm disappointed by GD performance; it's not doing antialiasing or anything. Also surprised just how fast the SVG rendering is. I hope that's a viable publication mechanism some day; right now MSIE doesn't support it and Firefox misrenders it. |
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