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

[marco atzeri]

2011/2/7 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
>

likely as AntiVirus are the main reason for major slowdown or crazy behaviour.

Marco