Optimizing Performance

There are several ways to optimize the performance of certain aspects of Ginga’s operation.

OpenCv Acceleration

Ginga includes support for OpenCv accelerated operations (e.g. rotation and rescaling). This support is used by default if the package is installed.

To enable OpenCv support, install the python opencv module (you can find it here).

OpenGl Acceleration

Ginga includes support for OpenGL rendering with Qt or Gtk back ends. To use this with the Reference Viewer, simply append the command line option –opengl. This can be particularly useful with high resolution displays.

Note that certain aspects of normal rendering for Ginga canvas objects are unavailable or different with OpenGL:

Inability to specify linestyle parameter (lines are always solid)
Inability to specify linewidth parameter (always defaults to 1)