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

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

I can definitely see this sort of requirement coming up again and again.
Is there a good general solution that can be suggested?

	Jeff




On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> >  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
> 
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