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

[John W. Eaton]

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.

jwe