Re: Canvas limitations (was Re: Coding question, canvas)

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  Could you translate "way too much" in more "numerical" terms ? :-)
>  
>  What are the practical limitation of the canvas in term of number of
>  objects ?

"Way too much" is something like "billions and billions" :-)

Consider a scatter plot of a huge amount of data.  It would be a bad
idea to dump a million separate point objects into the canvas, because
that would consume a lot of memory.  In cases like this, it is better
to create your own custom item that knows how to deal with lots of
points efficiently.

  Federico