startup time (was: 3 smaller issues: stratup and 2 readline)

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Sep-2008, Levente Torok wrote:

| 1) Starting the octave-3 is very slow compared to 2.1.x versions.
| Is it known what causes this slowing down?
| Is it some sort of cache generation from the functions that are accessible on 
path?
| Is there any way to speed it up?

The load-path code completely changed going from 2.1.x to 3.0.  Now
Octave scans all directories in the load-path at startup.  It only
takes a second or so for Octave to start on my system.  What do you
mean by "very slow"?  Do you have network filesystems in your
load-path?

jwe