[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55707] plot(vector, scalar) is very slow

[Pantxo Diribarne]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #55707 (project octave):

@Harmut: The expected behavior is properly documented in Matlab:

>> If one of X or Y is a scalar and the other is either a scalar or a vector,
then the plot function *plots discrete points*. However, to see the points you
must specify a marker symbol, for example, plot(X,Y,'o').

Now the question is whether Matlab creates as much line objects as the length
of the vector (this is what Octave currently does, but much more slowly than
acceptable), or if it simply creates one line with marker "none" (the
equivalent of "plot (x, y*size (x), 'Marker', 'none')").

What does the following do in Matlab:


x = 1:1000; % vector
y = 10;     % scalar
hlines = plot (x, y);
sprintf ('x,y-> %d line(s), marker ''%s''', numel (hlines), get (hlines(1),
'Marker'))


If there is only one line then we can easily speed up this call form.
Otherwise, we must stay ML compatible and we end up having to fix the very
slow graphics_objects creation (known bug but I can't find the number ATM). 

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