Hello,
We are happy to announce the release of VOPlot v1.3.
The release is available for download from, http://vo.iucaa.ernet.in/~voi/voplot.htm
VOPlot v1.3 takes much lesser time to load and plot VOTables as compared to the previous version 1.2.1. Version 1.3 has been specifically optimized to plot VOTables that contain few hundred thousand data points.
Benchmarking figures* for first catalog, which contains about 0.8 million rows and 13 columns, are as follows:
VOPlot v1.2.1 VOPlot v1.3
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Loading time ~ 5 minutes 55 seconds
Plotting time 25 seconds 3 seconds
Memory used 550 MB 320 MB
(* The figures were obtained on Pentium IV 2.8GHz machine with 2GB RAM on Windows platform)
We would be happy to receive your comments and suggestions. Please send them to <voindia-at-vo.iucaa.ernet.in>
With Best Regards,
Nilesh Urunkar