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

[Christopher Barker]

Chris Mellon wrote:

> On Windows, at least, your graphics hardware plays a major role.

True on all platforms

>   my laptop has a
> high end 3d gamers card in it, while the workstation has some horrible
> onboard thing, and theres an order of magnitude difference in drawing
> speed.

As high-end graphics cards are just getting cheaper and more common, it 
will become more useful to remove other bottlenecks, so I think this is 
worth doing.

-Chris


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