Shoji TOKUNAGA <[email protected]> reports that a -histogram- on a
reasonable size dataset takes more than 10 minutes to draw,
> . histogram value if itemcode == 3
> (bin=23, start=7.8000002, width=.38695655)
> .... long time passing .....
Shoji goes on to correctly associate the delay with the value label assigned
to his variable,
> . desc value
>
> storage display value
> variable name type format label variable label
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> value float %10.0g value value
>
> . label list value
> value:
> -1 minus
> 999999999 plus/minus
If the value label is removed from his variable, the histogram draws
immediately.
The graphics engine is not efficiently handling the large gap in the values
for which Shoji is defining labels.
We will make this more efficient in a future update.
In the interim, removing the label or avoiding extremely large gaps in the
values being labeled will make such graphs draw faster, sometimes much faster.
-- Vince
[email protected]
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