Optimisation

This is a short guide on how to speed up slow plots. See Optimisation for an example that illustrates some of these options.

Be Explicit

Often the simplest speedup can be achieved by explicitly setting limits. Autoscaling is convenient but slow. Other things you can define explicitly include:

• Set pos when using a QGradient.

• Set skip_finite_check to True when using squap.plot() or similar plotting functions.

• Set Antialiasing to False when using squap.plot() or similar plotting functions.

Skip Boring Frames

Sometimes the calculations are simple but require a certain very low timestep. The frames are very similar, so sometimes you can do multiple timesteps per refresh. todo: include and link to example

Only Update On Button Press

When the plotting is simple, but the calculations are complex, consider only updating when the user presses a button instead of every time a parameter is changed.