Seaborn can definitely take longer to render than matplotlib in some (many?) cases, but is often much much faster in actually writing out the code to generate t

Seaborn can definitely take longer to render than matplotlib in some (many?) cases, but is often much much faster in actually writing out the code to generate the plots. I think when most people complain about 'matplotlib not being efficient' (or whatever), they're talking about the time it takes to hammer out the plot, not necessarily the render time (unless they're trying to do animations...)