RE: [PyMOL] long loading times as the number of existing objects increases

2004-09-07 Thread Michael George Lerner
- > > From: Ben Allen [mailto:benal...@caltech.edu] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 2:48 PM > > To: Warren DeLano > > Cc: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] long loading times as the number of > > existing objects increases > &g

RE: [PyMOL] long loading times as the number of existing objects increases

2004-09-07 Thread Warren DeLano
Fax (650)-593-4020 > -Original Message- > From: Ben Allen [mailto:benal...@caltech.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 2:48 PM > To: Warren DeLano > Cc: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [PyMOL] long loading times as the number of > existing ob

Re: [PyMOL] long loading times as the number of existing objects increases

2004-09-07 Thread Ben Allen
Warren- Thanks for your prompt response! Given the fundamental issues you mentioned, I think I will change my script so that it loads files only when they are needed and deletes the associated objects when they are no longer being displayed. Initially, I rejected this solution as less efficien

RE: [PyMOL] long loading times as the number of existing objects increases

2004-09-07 Thread Warren DeLano
Ben, Thanks for the great benchmarks! PyMOL is definitely showing non-linear behavior when it comes to loading a lot of objects...I don't know why this is exactly, but I can tell you that I didn't originally envision (and thus optimize PYMOL for) loading of so many objects. As it currently stan