Re: startup time

[Levente Torok]

On Thursday 11 September 2008, you wrote:
> Levente Torok wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 September 2008, you wrote:
> >   
> >> The load-path code completely changed going from 2.1.x to 3.0.  Now
> >> Octave scans all directories in the load-path at startup.  It only
> >> takes a second or so for Octave to start on my system.  What do you
> >> mean by "very slow"?  Do you have network filesystems in your
> >> load-path?
> > For me, the start up of oct-3 takes 13-18 seconds.
> > (Certainly, I have many octave forge packages installed. )
> > In case of octave 2.x: it was 0.099 - .15 second.
> > Matlab 2007b starts up in 13-22 seconds.
> Are you running Windows or Linux?  If Windows, then scanning the
> load-path probably explains the difference because in my experience
> windows is much slower than linux statting directories.  (Anecdotally
> not definitively tested.)

I use ubuntu.5Gb of memory.

Levente


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