I've been profiling some of my code which builds many somewhat complex
graphs. I've noticed that it spends almost all it's time in the
__init__ of the artist class. The time there is almost entirely spent
on calling identity_transform which builds a SeperableTransform that
does no transforming--from what I can tell--which is consistent with
the name. The identity transform function buid a bunch of other
objects all of which are the same each time. My question is, does it
really need to build all these objects over and over again. Given
that Artist's __init__ is called by so many things wouldn't it be
better to have some static constants to define these default
transformation functions? Am I missing something subtle or would this
be an improvement?
What do people think?
def zero(): return Value(0)
def one() : return Value(1)
def origin():
return Point( zero(), zero() )
def unit_bbox():
"""
Get a 0,0 -> 1,1 Bbox instance
"""
return Bbox( origin(), Point( one(), one() ) )
def identity_affine():
"""
Get an affine transformation that maps x,y -> x,y
"""
return Affine(one(), zero(), zero(), one(), zero(), zero())
def identity_transform():
"""
Get an affine transformation that maps x,y -> x,y
"""
return SeparableTransformation(unit_bbox(), unit_bbox(),
Func(IDENTITY),
Func(IDENTITY))