Re: Very slow mesh on MacOS X

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On 10/6/06, Quentin Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:

> Having said that, if there are for loops in the mesh code, it would be
> nice to eliminate them. Also, gnuplot 4.2 will have a binary data
> transfer capability, and I think using it could help with any plots (2D
> or 3D) that have large amounts of data, although I'm still not sure
> that's the bottleneck here.

200x200 mesh is really a minuscule data set, so switching to
binary data format (which I am all for) would not help here.
(plot(rand(1,40000) takes a couple seconds on my machine)
The problem is hidden lines removal algorithm in gnuplot.

> Quentin

Dmitri.
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