Re: startup order difference between 3.2 and 3.3 (3.4).

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Hello


--- "John W. Eaton"wrote:

> On  7-Feb-2011, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> 
> | Perhaps I have misled after seeing loading time seeing on MinGW and Cygwin.
> | Even on 3.3, after startup message, it takes a time the prompt to appear.
> | 
> | Perhaps, initialization process is  slow in the current 3.3 version.
> | What is the difference in the start up process between 3.2 and 3.3?
> 
> Octave startup doesn't seem slow on my system, so I think you'll have
> to do some debugging to find out why it is slow for you.  I'd start by
> running Octave under gdb, setting a breakpoint in octave_main, and
> then stepping through it to see which function calls take significant
> amounts of time.

I do not use dubbuging environments for execution.
Startup slowness is also found in octave on cygwin by marco although I feel 
that slowness degree is
smaller on the cygwin.

Is the windows specific phenomenon?

Regards

Tatsuro

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