Re: user feedback (was: Re: [Texmacs-dev] Different versions of Guile)

[David Allouche]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:48:27PM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> But what I still don't understand is why TeXmacs
> is so much slower at the *first* time one boots it.
> And this is hard to bench (modulo turning on/off the computer).

Because of the disk cache.

Fill all the RAM using a simple program that allocates N megabytes and
touch all bytes. That will cause the kernel to flush all the disk
caches.

Next time you start texmacs, it will be just as slow as before.

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