[ROOT] Performance question: Updating a colz histogram

From: Ed Oltman (eoltman@imago.com)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 23:35:27 MEST


Hello,
 I have an online application which includes a 500x500 bin TH2F which I
display in response to a timer with

    p2DH->Draw("colz");
    gPad->GetCanvas()->Update();

(I've previously called gStyle->SetPalette(1,0))  Early on, when the
histogram is still young, the refresh is pretty quick - refreshing at 2 Hz
uses a small amount (<10%) of the cpu time. Gradually, as the histogram
fills, the refresh time increases - by the time the histogram has a few
hundred thousand entries, (maximum bin contents is in the 10s) the cpu time
is 80% and climing.

Is there something I could do to speed things up, short of adjusting the
refresh rate?  I am using version 3.03/08 on Win32.  Thanks...

Ed Oltman



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