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Re: startup time (was: 3 smaller issues: stratup and 2 readline)


From: Levente Torok
Subject: Re: startup time (was: 3 smaller issues: stratup and 2 readline)
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:59:58 +0200
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On Wednesday 10 September 2008, you wrote:
> On 10-Sep-2008, Levente Torok wrote:
> 
> | 1) Starting the octave-3 is very slow compared to 2.1.x versions.
> | Is it known what causes this slowing down?
> | Is it some sort of cache generation from the functions that are accessible 
> on path?
> | Is there any way to speed it up?
> 
> 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?
> 
> jwe
> 

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.

Levente



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