[wxPython-users] Draw method in PlotCanvas class for a number of points (>80,000) takes too much time

[Christopher Barker]

jmf wrote:
> The Draw method in the PlotCanvas class for a data set of more than 
> 80,000 points takes
> more than 3 minutes to plot the data on the frame. 

> On my futuristic PIII 600MHz win2k box, it displays a function y=f(x) of 
> 100000 points in something like 5 seconds. (no typo here).

and in FloatCanvas, drawing lines with 100,000 points takes less than a 
second, so something is odd here.

Are you using markers? that could slow it down a lot, and really 
wouldn't make sense for that many points anyway.

-Chris



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