Re: Performance issues on Windows, suggests a MSVC build

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2011/6/22 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Ole Jacob Hagen
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> * Linux: File loading + plotting: 3 minutes
>>
>> * Windows XP(MinGw): File loading + plotting: 30-40 minutes.
>>
>> File loading operation eg data = load('myoversizedlogfile.txt') is
> using 80-90% of total time.
>
> Does your log file have information about its size near the top that
> Octave can use?

Another thought: have you verified that your system isn't thrashing on
Windows? It may be unrelated to the Octave build but to memory layout
and segmentation in each operating system.

- Jordi G. H.