Re: startup time

[Levente Torok]

On Thursday 11 September 2008, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 11-Sep-2008, Levente Torok wrote:
> 
> | On Thursday 11 September 2008, you wrote:
> | > Levente Torok wrote:
> | > > On Wednesday 10 September 2008, you wrote:
> | > >   
> | > >> 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?
> | > > 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.
> | > Are you running Windows or Linux?  If Windows, then scanning the
> | > load-path probably explains the difference because in my experience
> | > windows is much slower than linux statting directories.  (Anecdotally
> | > not definitively tested.)
> | 
> | I use ubuntu.5Gb of memory.
> 
> And, as I asked earlier, are the directories in your load path on a
> local disk, or mounted from some network file server?

Hi John,

Sorry. Local disk only certainly.

Lev
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