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Re: Saving of plots very slow on Windows 7 / MinGW version


From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Subject: Re: Saving of plots very slow on Windows 7 / MinGW version
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:19:06 -0500

On 15 January 2013 08:16, Chera <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm using Octave 3.6.1 gcc 4.6.2 under Windows 7
>
> Saving standard 2D Plots  of about 200k datapoints ( by either using print()
> or saveas() ) is extremly slow (often takes more than 15min) but eventually
> the output file is created properly. During this time Ocatave is completely
> unresponsive.

Try doing

    graphics_toolkit gnuplot

before plotting anything.

The problem is that this Windows version of Octave is using the fltk
backend by default, which is very slow for plotting moderately
complicated plots.

- Jordi G. H.


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