Re: startup time

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Sep-2008, Levente Torok wrote:

| On Thursday 11 September 2008, you wrote:
| > Levente Torok wrote:
| > > On Wednesday 10 September 2008, you wrote:
| > >   
| > >> 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?
| > > For me, the start up of oct-3 takes 13-18 seconds.
| > > (Certainly, I have many octave forge packages installed. )
| > > In case of octave 2.x: it was 0.099 - .15 second.
| > > Matlab 2007b starts up in 13-22 seconds.
| > Are you running Windows or Linux?  If Windows, then scanning the
| > load-path probably explains the difference because in my experience
| > windows is much slower than linux statting directories.  (Anecdotally
| > not definitively tested.)
| 
| I use ubuntu.5Gb of memory.

And, as I asked earlier, are the directories in your load path on a
local disk, or mounted from some network file server?

jwe