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Re: user feedback (was: Re: [Texmacs-dev] Different versions of Guile)
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Joris van der Hoeven |
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Re: user feedback (was: Re: [Texmacs-dev] Different versions of Guile) |
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Mon, 24 May 2004 22:48:27 +0200 (CEST) |
> Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> writes:
> > TeXmacs is extremely slow when booting it for the first time after
> > turning on the computer, but acceptably fast afterwards. What can
> > we do in order to reduce the initial boot time?
>
> Add a progress bar like in OpenOffice.org? :)
>
> More seriously, more than a certain slowness of TeXmacs, what I find
> lacking is user feedback for actions.
>
> For example, while browsing the manual, I though TeXmacs was stuck while
> in fact it was loading a web page.
>
> It would be nice to have a feedback for most of user actions (like a
> changing pointer or a changing icon, a progress bar at the bottom, ...).
Sure.
> Regarding your initial question, have you a repartition of startup time
> for the different subsystems (guile, font loading, ...)? Can I have this
> startup time easily, is TeXmacs instrumented?
I added a --debug-bench option in the CVS version.
We can further improve it later.
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).
- [Texmacs-dev] Different versions of Guile, Joris van der Hoeven, 2004/05/24
- user feedback (was: Re: [Texmacs-dev] Different versions of Guile), David MENTRE, 2004/05/24
- Re: user feedback (was: Re: [Texmacs-dev] Different versions of Guile),
Joris van der Hoeven <=
- Re: user feedback (was: Re: [Texmacs-dev] Different versions of Guile), David Allouche, 2004/05/24
- Re: user feedback (was: Re: [Texmacs-dev] Different versions of Guile), Gilles LAMIRAL, 2004/05/24
- Re: user feedback (was: Re: [Texmacs-dev] Different versions of Guile), Joris van der Hoeven, 2004/05/25
- [Texmacs-dev] Re: user feedback, David MENTRE, 2004/05/25
- [Texmacs-dev] disk caches and startup time, David Allouche, 2004/05/25
- Re: [Texmacs-dev] disk caches and startup time, David MENTRE, 2004/05/25
- Re: [Texmacs-dev] disk caches and startup time, Joris van der Hoeven, 2004/05/25
- Re: [Texmacs-dev] disk caches and startup time, Joris van der Hoeven, 2004/05/26
- Re: [Texmacs-dev] disk caches and startup time, Joris van der Hoeven, 2004/05/26
- Re: [Texmacs-dev] disk caches and startup time, David Allouche, 2004/05/30