Re: Slow plotting (redraw due to legend?)

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:00:25 +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> due to really slow plotting with newer versions I still use octave
> 3.2.3. I also tried 3.6.4, some 3.8.x versions and 4.0.0. Generally
> newer versions seem slower than older ones. On linux it is two to four
> times faster than on windows (although the hardware is slower, but
> that’s something I encountered with other programs before).
[…]
> Is there a way of changing the above code to speed up plotting with
> current versions or a chance that octave will get back to its previous
> performance? And yes, I really want the legend without a surrounding
> box and with text left of linetype.

I don't have an answer for you, but FWIW it's worth I see the following
times on my system:

3.2.4 (running in a VM): less than 0.1 seconds
3.6.4: about 0.43 seconds
4.0.0: about 0.56 seconds

Mike, is that consistent across the different graphics toolkits?