Re: gset sends binary plot data to stdout

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

I am transferring the discussion to maintainers list.
It seems out of place on the bug list.
Please adjust CC accordingly.

Quentin Spencer wrote:
> Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>
> > John W. Eaton wrote:
> >
> > > How about the following changes then?  I think this will eliminate
> > > problems with automatic_replot, since it completely eliminates that
> > > variable.  The higher-level plotting functions now issue explicit
> > > replot commands.  The lower level ones never do.  So we should get the
> > > desired mostly-Matlab-compatible behavior.  If people are using the
> > > lower-level plotting commands, then they should know what to do,
> > > because gnuplot also requires explicit replot commands.
> > >
> > > Comments?
> >
> >
> >
> > I guess it would take some getting used to, but I personally prefer
> > not to have automatic replots at all. The data I am dealing with
> > often very large and plots take few seconds. So if I forgot to
> > set axes labels and title before plotting the data, I would
> > have to endure multiple replots...
>
>
> Good point. I haven't tried plots with large amounts of data in octave 
> for a while, but I remember it being slow. It seemed to me at the time 
> that a big cause of slowness was transfering data by ascii files to 
> gnuplot. Is anyone familiar enough with gnuplot development to know 
> whether there is interest in supporting other ways of transferring data?

Development version of gnuplot (4.1) has binary data support for 2d
plotting... But anyway it looks like a long shot to me.

Dmitri.
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