[pstricks] TeX loop structures versus Postscript Loop Structures and Plotting

[Herbert Voss]

Buddy Ledger schrieb:
> Also I forgot to ask which would be faster in the context of the code 
> which I provided
> 
> This: (all objects plotted at once via TeX Loop)
> 
> \GetCoor[options]{\data}{plotcol}{maxcol}
> 
> or This: (ojects created sequentially vis TeX calls to PS Loops)
> 
> \listplot[plotstyle=ErrorLine]{\data}{plotNo}{plotNoMax}
> \listplot[plotstyle=dots]{\data}{{plotNo}{plotNoMax}
> \listplot[plotstyle=line]{\data}{{plotNo}{plotNoMax}
> \listplot[plotstyle=LineToXAxis]{\data}{{plotNo}{plotNoMax}


it is not worth to investigate here, on TeX and PS-level it
is fast enough. The problem is the ps2pdf conversion with
ghostscript which may take a lot of seconds, sometimes minutes :-)

Herbert