Re: Poor plot performance on Windows

[Jake]

Yes but the plumber hasn't heard stories about how the toilet screws up for 4 years straight before coming over. Hasn't someone already tried to locate the problem in the past 4 years and failed?

On Mar 16, 2016 11:18 AM, "Nicholas Jankowski" <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Jake <address@hidden> wrote:

Tried the same script on lubuntu, just as slow actually. I think ghostscript is the bottleneck.

Why would I pay when no one apparently knows what the problem is?

On Mar 16, 2016 10:23 AM, "Mike Miller" <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 08:12:01 -0700, Jake wrote:
> I agree entirely. It seems like it was worst in 3.6-3.8 IIRC and got better
> in 4.0, but it's still bad.

Plotting is extremely usable in most GNU/Linux environments, which is
where Octave is primarily developed.

> I was looking at prices for MATLAB yesterday
> because it took 30-45 minutes to run the script in question when it
> should've taken a minute tops.

If spending money to fix this problem is an option, would you consider
paying a developer to work on improving Octave's plotting performance in
Windows? See http://www.octave.org/commercial_support.

--
mike

well, to be fair your plumber doesn't know the problem when you call him with a flooded basement, but he's still going to bill you for the time spent finding the problem.