Hi!

Cloning

I'm trying to use the Plot and Line API.
This requires that I consume my data by value, I'd much rather keep a cached copy & provide a reference.

My plot data is fairly large (1M+ elements, sometimes 50M).

If this is not possible, can I add the API to accept something which can be .as_ref() to a &[(f64, f64)]?

I suspect the by-value nature of the API has something to do with the immediate mode design of egui... however, in cases like this it doesn't seem to actually make sense if it is driven only be design purity, ykwim? Your thoughts on this / advice would help me.

Background Work

I am running massive simulations (~hours completion time) & interactively showing the results over time is the goal. I'd like to be able to do this in the background as mentioned. It is mentioned a few times in the documentation that long-running tasks should be deferred to background tasks in an async manner. I agree. I'm lost on how to accomplish this. I can think of a few clumsy ways, but I want to know if there is a proper way to do this that makes things easy and performant in egui.

Thank you!