AW: Slow plotting (redraw due to legend?)

[Jens.Wulf]

Hi Mike,

you wrote about legend.m and myself:
> I don't think what you're calling a regression is simply loss of
> performance for no good reason. I believe that legend has a lot more
> functionality than it used to. Functionality that you may not need, but
> that is required for Matlab compatibility. And that may be most of what
> is making legend slower in newer versions.

> It sounds like you are very interested in this performance loss. If that
> translates into a willingness to help improve the function, please do
> file a bug report and start investigating what some of the critical
> bottlenecks in the legend function are.

and
> It's left as an exercise if you or someone wants to try to make the old
> legend.m function work with a current version of Octave, I wouldn't
> consider that a worthy use of anyone's time though :)

I'm not overly interested in legend.m, it is just the fact that I was able to 
pin down some of the slowness (compared to previous versions) to this function 
and was able to provide a test case. I thought it was low hanging fruit. Your 
statements indicate that those changes have been made because of matlab 
compatibility, so I just accept that this is no low hanging fruit at all.

I'll keep an eye on these plotting things and might investigate here or there, 
but have to keep in mind what pays off for my employer.

Current versions also introduced a huge penalty that's shown by my script with 
bAfter=false. 3.2.x didn't care about that, so users might be happy to read 
about this in the "tips and standards" or "plotting" section of the octave 
manual (setting the legend strings afterwards is a lot faster than giving them 
to plot()).

Best regards,
Jens


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