[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #65312] "__run_test_suite__" ran in GUI hangs Octave in some configurations

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #44, bug#65312 (group octave):

I was still seeing a significant slowdown when executing __run_test_suite__ in
the GUI.  While trying to debug where the delay was happening, I noticed that
the GUI was looking for icons for files in /tmp.  I happened to have about
10,000 junk files there.  Oops!  Performance improved when I removed them. 
That's good, but I don't think performance should be terrible just because you
happen to cd to a directory that contains many files, especially if that is
happening while running a script.

Maybe we should limit the updates of the file browser to the current directory
when the prompt is displayed and not attempt to follow every directory change
that happens while a script or function is executing?  Even if we agree that's
a reasonable thing to do, I don't think we need to delay the release for it.



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