danvk/dygraphs — pull request #189 by klausw-g (2012-12-18 01:57:21+00:00)
Title: Fix tick marks for large Y scale ranges

The tick placement logic used a double loop to look for appropriate tick spacing, assuming that a base unit around 10^50 would be sufficient to cover any Y range. Unfortunately this places 10^100 tick marks for Y values around 10^150, leading to excessive resource usage on typical client hardware.

This patch replaces the double loop with a single loop, finding the starting point by explicit calculation.

It also adds a regression test to catch the defective behavior.