Faster Data Plotting  

Mathematica 10 includes improvements in the speed and memory of plotting datasets. Shown are full timings and memory size for a few common situations. The experiments were performed on an Intel Core i7 2.6 GHz Mac OS X system.

Large datasets are about 40% faster to plot.

Plotting multiple datasets with unique markers is much faster.

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X m10s3 = {{8, 8608}, {16, 9184}, {32, 10336}, {64, 12672}, {128, 17280}, {256, 26496}, {512, 44928}, {1024, 81792}};

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X m9s3 = {{8, 13208}, {16, 22296}, {32, 40472}, {64, 76824}, {128, 149816}, {256, 295736}, {512, 579544}, {1024, 1155032}};

Plotting multiple datasets with unique markers also generates smaller results.

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X ListLogLogPlot[{m9s3, m10s3}, PlotRange -> All, PlotTheme -> {"Grid", "OpenMarkers"}, ImageSize -> Large, PlotLabel -> Style["Graphics size for multiple datasets with individual markers", 14, Bold], PlotLegends -> Placed[{"Mathematica 9", "Mathematica 10"}, Below], AxesLabel -> {"length", "bytes"}, Joined -> True]

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