In all walks of programming life, performance matters. It is especially true when you are using third-party controls where you have no influence over how quickly the controls and their content renders on the screen. We agree and have always considered high performance as a vital feature of our products. The charting products are no exception: we are always on the lookout to makes our chart rendering engine faster and faster.
Throughout 2013 and 2014, we introduced data aggregation and other great features to our charts, which helped make the rendering of our ASP.NET, WinForms and WPF charts faster several times over, but for 2015 we faced a big challenge: what else can we improve? In v15.1, then, we spent some time analyzing our charting product for Windows applications, and have come up with a few new strategies to increase performance and, also, reduce memory consumption.
Here are some results from our internal tests.
WinForms app, Numeric data:
WinForms app, DateTime data:
I’m sure you’d agree, those are some really impressive results. If I were you, I’d download 15.1 now – it was released yesterday! – test the new version in your environment on your data, and share your results with us in the comments.