Starting GLMakie takes very long

sijo · July 6, 2021, 1:06pm

Why not convert them?

jules · July 6, 2021, 1:13pm

It just needs a redesign of a lot of internals to do that, and we’re not sure about the tradeoffs in usability yet

joa-quim · July 6, 2021, 1:34pm

Mine (2020b) just took ~12 s. Sometimes it’s a bit faster others a bit slower.

sdanisch · July 6, 2021, 1:44pm

That’s actually the plan for the plot type refactor, but it’s still not super easy. Note that a color can be: a single color, an array of colors… And that’s one of the simpler attributes:

github.com

JuliaPlots/Makie.jl/blob/48bbb2bb1bfc870f39495b04fcd2904d55366f3f/MakieCore/src/basic_plots/scatter.jl


@with_kw mutable struct Scatter{N} <: AbstractPlot
    parent::Union{Scene, Nothing} = nothing

    positions::AbstractVector{Point{N,Float32}}

    color::TorVector{RGBAf0} = :black
    marker::TorVector{<:Union{Symbol,Char, Type{Circle}, Type{Rect2D}}} = Circle
    markersize::TorVector{Union{Float32, Vec{N,Float32}}} = 5
    marker_offset::TorVector{Vec{N,Float32}} = automatic
    strokecolor::TorVector{RGBAf0} = :black
    strokewidth::TorVector{Float32} = 0.0
    markerspace::Space = Pixel
    transform_marker::Bool = false
    distancefield::Union{Nothing, AbstractMatrix{<: Union{Colorant, Number}}} = nothing
    cycle::Vector{Symbol} = [:color]
    inspectable::Bool = true

    anti_aliasing::Bool = :fxaa
    visible::Bool = true

This file has been truncated. show original

sijo · July 6, 2021, 2:15pm

Just a guess, but beside improving the speed of compilation maybe it would also help usability in a way, by making the API more predicable for the user. E.g. “I can give :red or RGBAf0(1, 0, 0, 1) and I know it’s quickly normalized to ... and then clearly it makes no difference”.

Awesome to hear! But yeah I see what you mean, that’s quite some work…

rveltz · July 6, 2021, 3:22pm

This looks strange to me anti_aliasing::Bool = :fxaa

sdanisch · July 6, 2021, 4:07pm

It’s in a very early stage

PetrKryslUCSD · July 6, 2021, 4:30pm

24 sec on my Win 10 laptop.

lazarusA · July 6, 2021, 4:50pm

GLMakie in M1 with Rosseta it takes 42 seconds to first plot. So, not bad… one can always use that time to explain the problem of Time to first plot. which is less than a minute.