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

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Gilles LAMIRAL wrote:
> > But what I still don't understand is why TeXmacs
> > is so much slower at the *first* time one boots it.
>
> Because code is already cached in memory.

Yes, OK, but why is it so *much* slower compared to other programs.
The TeXmacs binary is quite small. Is it the fact that we load many
small font, scheme, and other files?

> > And this is hard to bench (modulo turning on/off the computer).
>
> You have to clear the cached code by running a command
> taking all the cache memory (a simple dd ?).

What would be the exact command?