[Tikzdevice-bugs] Peformance

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Thanks.  When I try to run the test it fails.  This is the stderr output is
shown below and test.log is attached.  I am on Windows Vista and am running
R 2.10.0.

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C:\tmp2\tikzDevice\inst\tests>Rscript testRTikZDevice.R --output=output >
test.l
og
Loading required package: filehash
Loading required package: methods
filehash: Simple key-value database (2.0-1 2008-12-19)
tikzDevice: A Device for R Graphics Output in PGF/TikZ Format (v0.4.8)
Checking for a LaTeX compiler...


A working LaTeX compiler was found in:
        The PATH using the command latex

Global option tikzLatex set to:
        C:\PROGRA~1\MIKTEX~1.7\miktex\bin\latex.exe

MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.7.2808 (1.40.4) (MiKTeX 2.7)
Copyright (C) 1982 D. E. Knuth, (C) 1996-2006 Han The Thanh
TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society.


Error in getMetricsFromLatex(TeXMetrics) :
  ******** There was a problem calculating string metrics,
  ******** likely there was a problem with your custom packages.
  ******** See the LaTeX log file above for details.
Calls: source ... Axis.default -> axis -> <Anonymous> -> getMetricsFromLatex
Execution halted

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On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Cameron Bracken
<cameron.bracken at gmail.com>wrote:

> Not quite sure what you mean by relative speed, but yes there is a test
> suite that times some output.  The suite is in the inst/tests directory of
> the source code. A vast majority of the time is taken by calculating string
> widths.  The performance gain from caching metrics calculations is very
> noticable, somtimes up to 90% when lots of strings are involved. Does this
> answer your question?
>
> -Cameron
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Are there any performance benchmarks for tikzdevice?  Is the relative
>> speed noticeable?
>>
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