[vtk-developers] Removal of vtkMathTextActor class?

[David Lonie]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
<jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> From Slicer perspective, that sounds good, this class is not used.
>
> Within Slicer, we were also having performance issue with scene having a lot
> of vtkTextActor, would the use of matplotlib help ?

Thanks for letting me know. The MathText rendering using a
python-based backend to render text, and the overhead of starting and
running the interpreter is much slower than using the C++ based
freetype rendering, so that's probably not going to help any
performance issues.

Dave