[Kst] Tribute to kst's power

[George Staikos]

On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:00, Brisset, Nicolas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't remember whether I had sent this as I had planned quite some
> time ago. In case I had not gone to the point of actually sending the
> data, or for newcomers to the list here it is (again ?). I think I have
> read somewhere that there are plans to make some "marketing" effort for
> kst, that sure could help :-)
>
> [benchmark done on a P4 PC @ 3GHz with 2GB RAM, with version 1.1 as far
> as I can remember]
> - 12 vectors * 2 932 000 samples
> - 9 power spectra * 4194304 points
> - 9 histograms with 150 bins on the 2.9 Mpoints vectors
>
> 2 min 30 s to load the .kst file

  We know how to tackle this one and make it faster but it's a high-impact 
change right now due to some hacks that found their way in.  Hopefully we can 
fix it later this year.

> zoom refreshes in less than 1s
> 3 s to resize a window with 3 simple plots
> 5 s to resize a window with 3 power spectra in lin-log axes
> --------------------
> This is a real-world case we used kst for. Needless to say, the
> colleague who did this was quite impressed :-) I am not sure there are
> many tools out there who can handle such amounts of data, and certainly
> very few where the session remains usable :-)

  I think we can do better. :-)

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