Re: Octave takes forever to load

[marco atzeri]

Il 5/31/2013 5:25 AM, Ether Jones ha scritto:
> Hello.
>
> I just installed Octave3.6.4_gcc4.6.2_20130408 to my XP Pro SP3 desktop
> computer.
>
> Everything works fine so far *except*:
>
> 1) Every time I start Octave it takes 30 seconds to load and give me a
> command prompt.  Is this normal?

No. It takes 2 sec on my cygwin .
Check how many forge packages you are autoloading

> 2) It takes 90 seconds to load a 2500x2500 matrix.  By comparison,
> SciLab loads the exact same matrix  in under 2 seconds.  I am using the
> command N = load("N.dat"). Is there a better way?

which format ?
A text format likely no, but a binary format is much faster

> Thank you.